Fat is probably the most commonly used adjective for describing someone who has too much flesh but, it is very direct. Of course, there are just as many words to describe the opposite situation. Slight, meanwhile, which is neither positive nor negative, means ‘thin and delicate’. Petite, which is positive in tone, means ‘ short and slim’ and is only used for women and girls.
Lean describes someone who is slim and strong: Long-distance runners are usually fairly lean. Slender, for example, means ‘slim and graceful’: She was small and slender, like a dancer. Other synonyms for ‘slim’ have an extra meaning in addition to ‘having little fat’. If someone is slim they are quite thin in a way that is attractive: Charlotte was looking lovely and slim in the photos. Probably the most common of these is slim. The above adjectives are generally negative, but there are as many adjectives to describe people who are thin in a way that is positive. It describes the whole of the body: Some of the patients were quite emaciated. The adjective emaciated describes someone who is dangerously thin, usually through illness or extreme hunger. Gaunt, meanwhile, is used to describe a very thin face, sometimes a face that is thin because a person is ill: Her face was gaunt and grey. Someone who is scrawny is so thin that their bones stick out: He was a scrawny little kid. Even thinner than ‘skinny’ is scrawny (also a slightly informal word). Skinny, a slightly informal word, means very much the same: I don’t like his looks – he’s too skinny. ‘Thin’ is often used in a negative way: She’s very pretty but she’s too thin. Probably the most commonly used adjective to describe someone who has too little fat is thin. Let’s take a look at some of the more commonly used words for body shapes.
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The English language is full of words that describe the shape of our bodies, some of them positive and some of them less positive.
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