Antonyms of adj bony
2 of 3 senses of bony
Sense 1
bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted -- (very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration")
INDIRECT (VIA thin) -> fat -- (having an (over)abundance of flesh; "he hadn't remembered how fat she was")
Sense 3
bony (vs. boneless), boney -- (having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish")
boneless (vs. bony) -- (being without a bone or bones; "jellyfish are boneless")
=> boned, deboned -- (having had the bones removed; "a boneless rib roast"; "a boned (or deboned) fish")
Similarity of adj bony
3 senses of bony
Sense 1
bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted -- (very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration")
=> thin (vs. fat), lean -- (lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare)
Sense 2
osseous, osteal, bony -- (composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue")
Sense 3
bony (vs. boneless), boney -- (having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish")
=> bone -- (consisting of or made up of bone; "a bony substance"; "the bony framework of the body")
=> boned -- (having bones as specified; "his lanky long-boned body")
=> bonelike -- (resembling bone; "a bonelike tumor")
=> strong-boned -- (having strong bones)