skeleton

skeleton is a 8-letter English word with 10 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.
2. noun. The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal.
3. noun. A very thin or lean person.
4. noun. The framework of anything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages.
5. noun. The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.
6. adjective. Consisting of, or resembling, a skeleton; consisting merely of the framework or outlines; having only certain leading features of anything; as, a skeleton sermon; a skeleton crystal.
7. noun. the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape

   "the building has a steel skeleton"

   Synonyms: frame, underframe

8. noun. the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal

   Synonyms: frame

9. noun. a scandal that is kept secret

   "there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet"

10. noun. something reduced to its minimal form

    "the battalion was a mere skeleton of its former self"

    "the bare skeleton of a novel"

Synonyms

frame, underframe

Common word forms

skeletons, skeletonise, skeletonize, skeletonless

Words from these letters

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