(a.) Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.

Lenten Spartan abstemious angular anorectic anorexic ascetic austere bony cadaverous drawn dwarfed dwarfish emaciated exiguous flat flat-chested fleshless frugal gangling gangly gaunt gawky haggard impoverished jejune lank lanky lean lean-fleshed lean-looking limited meager mean miserly narrow paltry parsimonious poor puny rawboned reedy scant scanty scraggy scrimp scrimpy skeletal skimp skimpy skinny slender slight slim small spare sparing spidery spindling spindly starvation stingy stinted straitened stunted subsistence thin thin-bellied thin-fleshed twiggy undersized underweight unnourishing unnutritious watered watery