• Skeletally

    Origin

    From skeletal + -ly.

    Full definition of skeletally

    Adverb

    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 2006, p. 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.
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