Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.
- 2noun
The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal.
- 3noun
A very thin or lean person.
- 4noun
The framework of anything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages.
- 5noun
The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.
- 6adjective
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.
- 7noun
the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape
"the building has a steel skeleton"
Synonyms
- 8noun
the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal
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- 9noun
a scandal that is kept secret
"there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet"
- 10noun
something reduced to its minimal form
"the battalion was a mere skeleton of its former self"
"the bare skeleton of a novel"
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