living skeleton
Dangerously thin person
A living skeleton is a person so emaciated that their bones are prominently visible beneath the skin.
The term typically describes victims of severe starvation, whether from famine, imprisonment, or illness: Photographs from the liberated camps showed living skeletons.
It can also describe someone who is simply very thin, though this usage risks insensitivity given the phrase's association with atrocity and suffering.
- undeadDeceased yet animate
- walking deadZombies or doomed souls
- bonesRigid internal support structure
- skullHead's bone casing
- zombieReanimated dead body
corpse · cadaver · reanimated · rattling · memento mori · crypt · graveyard · decay · emaciated · gaunt · death warmed over · bony · bag of bones · skin and bones · death · tomb · necromancy · grave robber
- Sideshowfreak show, sideshow, bearded lady, fat lady, tattooed lady
living skeletonfatso
Derogatory term for obesity
tub of lard · butterball · morbidly obese · blimp · whale
living, live, lived, lives, liver, lively, livelihood, alive, outlive