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What is the adjective for bone?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb bone which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

boned
  1. (in combination) Having some specific type of bone.
  2. (art) Of computer-generated animations: based on models with simulated bones or joints.
  3. (slang) Beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger.
  4. (slang) Broken.
  5. of meat or fish, having had the bones removed before cooking.
  6. of a garment such as a corset or basque, fitted with bones.
bony
  1. resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone; osseous.
  2. full of bones
  3. with little flesh; skinny, thin
  4. having prominent bones
  5. Synonyms:
      6. skinny, thin, scrawny, lean, gaunt, lanky, slender, spindly, emaciated, rangy, angular, slim, scraggy, skeletal, spare, gangling, gangly, rawboned, undernourished, svelte, haggard, anorexic, lithe, cadaverous, underfed, underweight, macilent, fatless, anorectic, gracile, starveling, fleshless, skin-and-bones, size-zero, raw-boned, hollow-cheeked, spindle-shanked, thin as a rake, half-starved, skin and bones, like a bag of bones, lank, attenuated, pinched, starved, gawky, wasted, twiggy, meager, willowy … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “Without looking, Monty pointed a thin bony finger across the narrow inlet where soldiers were pulling a limp, but responding living human from the water.”
      “The arid desert had a bony soil that was unable to support any kind of vegetation.”
      “The archaeologist discovered a bony fragment of a dinosaur's ribcage during the excavation.”
boneless
  1. Without bones, especially as pertaining to meat or poultry prepared for eating.
  2. (chiefly Britain, figuratively) Lacking strength, courage, or resolve; spineless.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. cowardly, spineless, craven, gutless, timid, pusillanimous, yellow, chicken, timorous, weak, fearful, soft, wimpish, feeble, recreant, wimpy, unheroic, dastardly, spiritless, poltroon, cowering, scared, chickenhearted, wet, quaking, afraid, frightened, nervous, trembling, shrinking, sissy, jittery, sissified, shy, apprehensive, diffident, fainthearted, panicky, abject, base, anxious, pigeonhearted, caitiff, dismayed, retiring, sookie, backward, cowhearted, worthless, lily-livered … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Currently, only boneless meat cut from cattle younger than 30 months old can reenter the market.”
      “I perused the chicken section and wondered whether I should get boneless or chicken with bone.”
      “The men reminisced about hearing the bell while night-fishing for mojarra and boneless quishele to sell in the market.”
bone
  1. Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
bonelike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of bone.
  2. Examples:
      3. “Bowheads, also known as Greenland right whales, are baleen whales, meaning that instead of teeth they have bonelike plates that they use to strain food from gulps of water.”
      “Right whales are large baleen whales, meaning that instead of teeth they have bonelike plates, which they use to strain food from large gulps of water.”
      “In vitro differentiation of chick embryo bone marrow stromal cells into cartilaginous and bonelike tissues.”
boney
  1. Alternative spelling of bony
  2. Synonyms:
      3. desolate, barren, unproductive, infertile, waste, stark, unfertile, dead, bare, bony, desert, sterile, poor, arid, impoverished, hardscrabble, bleak, windswept, inhospitable, wild, dismal, uncultivatable, unfruitful, fallow, fruitless, depleted, empty, unyielding, exhausted, denuded, uncultivated, infecund, lifeless, unprolific, dry, devastated, lean, uncultivable, unvegetated, dreary, harsh, austere, parched, lonely, unbearing, effete, deserted, dry as dust, uninhabited, dormant … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “If you go to Latin or South America girls are curvaceous and vivacious rather than boney and manic listening to Radiohaead.”
      “Trace the ulna down the side of your forearm to where it ends, a boney prominence above the wrist.”
      “My friend thought it was a little too dry, and although I didn't totally agree, I did think the portion was far too boney, with too much gristle and not enough meat.”
bonerific
  1. (slang, rare) sexually attractive.
bonier
  1. comparative form of bony: more bony
  2. Synonyms:
      3. skinnier, thinner, scrawnier, leaner, gaunter, lankier, slenderer, spindlier, rangier, slimmer, scraggier, sparer, ganglier, svelter, lither, more emaciated, more angular, more skeletal, more gangling, more undernourished, more haggard, more anorexic, more cadaverous, more underfed, more underweight, more macilent, more anorectic, more gracile, lanker, more attenuated, more starved, gawkier, more wasted, twiggier, slighter, meagerer, willowier, meagrer, reedier, stringier, weedier, more spindling, wirier, more attenuate, lissomer, more wizened, taller, more shriveled, narrower, more shrivelled … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Smaller, bonier forelegs can be cooked with the hind legs or reserved for stock or soup.”
      “Her round face was becoming bonier and her formerly lustrous hair had lost most of its shine.”
      “Top with the bonier pieces of chicken, then follow with another third of rice.”
boniest
  1. superlative form of bony: most bony
  2. Synonyms:
      3. skinniest, thinnest, scrawniest, leanest, gauntest, lankiest, slenderest, spindliest, rangiest, slimmest, scraggiest, sparest, gangliest, sveltest, lithest, most emaciated, most angular, most skeletal, most gangling, most undernourished, most haggard, most anorexic, most cadaverous, most underfed, most underweight, most macilent, most anorectic, most gracile, lankest, most attenuated, most starved, gawkiest, most wasted, twiggiest, slightest, meagerest, willowiest, meagrest, reediest, stringiest, weediest, most spindling, wiriest, most attenuate, lissomest, most wizened, tallest, most shriveled, narrowest, most shrivelled … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “With multiple formations of y-shaped bones running through their mid-line, shad may be the boniest fish in the world.”
      “West Virginia hogs are the longest, lankest, boniest animals in creation.”
boning
  1. present participle of bone
  2. Synonyms:
      3. cutting, filleting, disemboweling, disembowelling, gutting, limbing, dressing, preparing, scaling, skinning, cleaning, robbing, stealing, pilfering, purloining, thieving, filching, swiping, taking, pinching, nicking, lifting, appropriating, misappropriating, heisting, snitching, looting, nabbing, embezzling, snaffling, hooking, liberating, whipping, glomming, abstracting, nobbling, burgling, cribbing, blagging, burglarizing, shoplifting, snavelling, rifling, peculating, defalcating, scrumping, copping, souveniring, requisitioning, dispossessing … more
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