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)

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