skeletally

English

Etymology

From skeletal +‎ -ly.

Adverb

skeletally (comparative more skeletally, superlative most skeletally)

  1. Pertaining to the skeleton.
  2. In a skeletal manner; like a skeleton.
    • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 131:
      A skeletally tall montagnard […], Amirouche had been a member of both the religious Ulema and, in Paris, of Messali's M.T.L.D.
    • 2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 214:
      When I looked back at the table I saw Seamus Cummings, deeply tanned, skeletally thin, sitting on the opposite side a few seats away[.]
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