/ Thesaurus / B Synonyms of boney Find synonyms for: Adjective1. bony (vs. boneless), boney, bone, boned, bonelike, strong-bonedusage: having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish"2. scraggy, boney, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy, thin (vs. fat), leanusage: being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. Related Content Daily Word Quiz: devout Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy Spelling Bee: Today’s Spelling Bee Frequently Misspelled Words Frequently Mispronounced Words Easily Confused Words Writing & Language