1 (technical) connected with the skeleton of a person or an animal:
Skeletal remains of the earliest dinosaurs are rare.
2 looking like a skeleton:
skeletal figures dressed in rags * She stretched out a skeletal hand.
3 that exists only in a basic form, as an outline:
He has written only a skeletal plot for the book so far.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for skeletal is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is skeletal a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, skeletal is tagged as adjective.
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