SKINNY (skinnier, skinniest)

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Irregular inflected forms: skinnier    , skinniest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does skinny mean? 

• SKINNY (noun)
  The noun SKINNY has 1 sense:

1. confidential information about a topic or person

  Familiarity information: SKINNY used as a noun is very rare.

• SKINNY (adjective)
  The adjective SKINNY has 4 senses:

1. being very thin

2. of or relating to or resembling skin

3. fitting snugly

4. giving or spending with reluctance

  Familiarity information: SKINNY used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKINNY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Confidential information about a topic or person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

he wanted the inside skinny on the new partner

Hypernyms ("skinny" is a kind of...):

info; information (a message received and understood)

• SKINNY (adjective)

Comparative: skinnier   
Superlative: skinniest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being very thin

Synonyms:

boney; bony; scraggly; scraggy; scrawny; skinny; underweight; weedy

Context example:

pale bony hands

Similar:

lean; thin (lacking excess flesh)

Derivation:

skinniness (the bodily property of lacking flesh)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to or resembling skin

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

skin (a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch)

Derivation:

skin (a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Fitting snugly

Synonyms:

skinny; tight-fitting; tight fitting; tightfitting; tightly fitting

Context example:

tight-fitting clothes

Similar:

tight (closely constrained or constricted or constricting)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Giving or spending with reluctance

Synonyms:

cheeseparing; close; near; penny-pinching; skinny

Context example:

a penny-pinching miserly old man

Similar:

stingy; ungenerous (unwilling to spend (money, time, resources, etc.))

 Context examples 

She was not much hurt, but in her fall one of the Silver Shoes came off; and before she could reach it, the Witch had snatched it away and put it on her own skinny foot.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

There was much laughter and clapping of glasses upon the table at the conclusion of old Buckhorse’s story, and I saw the Prince of Wales hand something to the waiter, who brought it round and slipped it into the skinny hand of the veteran, who spat upon it before thrusting it into his pocket.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Based on these new occultation observations, team members say MU69 may not be not a lone spherical object, but suspect it could be an extreme prolate spheroid – think of a skinny football – or even a binary pair.

(New Horizons' Next Target Just Got a Lot More Interesting, NASA)