fleshless
Stripped to bone
Fleshless means without flesh—either literally, as with a skeleton stripped of tissue, or figuratively, as with something lacking substance or vitality.
A fleshless argument has no meat to it.
The fleshless bones lay scattered across the desert floor.
The word often evokes death, decay, or ghostly insubstantiality.
Abnormally wasted from hunger
- skeletalOf or like bones
- wastedUsed without good result
- haggardExhausted in appearance
- bonyThin, with protruding skeleton
scrawny · cadaverous · starved · withered · shrunken · drawn · pinched · sunken
Deceased human body
- skeletonInternal supportive framework
- skullHead's bone casing
- bonesRigid internal support structure
- cadaverBody for dissection
crypt · tomb · specter · ghostly · ghoulish · morbid · gruesome · sepulchral
Not made of matter
- etherealDelicate beyond earthly measure
- disembodiedWithout a physical body
- transcendentExceeding usual boundaries
- immaterialLacking physical form; unimportant
bodiless · intangible · otherworldly · spectral · astral · soulful · nonphysical · unworldly
emaciated
Abnormally wasted from hunger
bony · scrawny · cadaverous · starved · withered · shrunken · drawn · pinched · sunken · rawboned
corpse
Deceased human body
cadaver · crypt · tomb · specter · ghostly · ghoulish · morbid · gruesome · sepulchral · charnel
incorporeal
Not made of matter
- etherealDelicate beyond earthly measure
- disembodiedWithout a physical body
- transcendentExceeding usual boundaries
immaterial · bodiless · intangible · otherworldly · spectral · astral · soulful · nonphysical · unworldly · formless
stripped
Had coverings removed
raw · uncovered · unclad · barren · bleak · austere · spare · minimal · unadorned
fleshlessfleshy
Thick with soft tissue
meaty · plump · corpulent · fat · well-padded
flesh, fleshy, fleshing, fleshed, fleshes, fleshiness, fleshier, fleshiest, fleshliness