Skinny vs. Emaciated

(informal) thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense).

Example: ‘Her recent weight loss has made her look rather skinny than slender’;

Low-fat.

Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).

(of clothing) tight-fitting

Example: ‘skinny jeans’;

(colloquial) The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor.

Example: ‘She called to get the skinny on the latest goings-on in the club.’;

A state of nakedness; nudity.

(informal) A low-fat serving of coffee.

A skinny being.

(transitive) To reduce or cut down.

Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh.

Example: ‘He holds him with a skinny hand.’;

confidential information about a topic or person;

Example: ‘he wanted the inside skinny on the new partner’;

having unattractive thinness;

Example: ‘a child with skinny freckled legs’; ‘a long scrawny neck’;

Thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease.

Example: ‘The emaciated prisoners in the death camps were weak and sickly.’;

simple past tense and past participle of emaciate

having become so thin that the bones noticeably protude under the skin; as, emaciated bony hands.

very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;

Example: ‘emaciated bony hands’; ‘a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys’; ‘eyes were haggard and cavernous’; ‘small pinched faces’; ‘kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration’;

abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or a lack of food

Example: ‘she was so emaciated she could hardly stand’;