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Synonyms of spindly in English:

spindly


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adjective

1‘he was pale, spindly, and ginger-haired’

SYNONYMS
tall, thin, skinny, lean, lanky, spare, gangling, gangly, scrawny, scraggy, bony, size-zero, raw-boned, gawky, rangy, angular
informal weedy
dated spindle-shanked
ANTONYMS

stocky, fat, thickset

2‘spindly chairs’

SYNONYMS
rickety, flimsy, wobbly, shaky, fragile, frail, insubstantial