spare

lean, spare, lank, lanky, gaunt, rawboned, scrawny, skinny mean thin because of an absence of excess flesh.

lean stresses lack of fat and of curving contours.

spare suggests leanness from abstemious living or constant exercise.

lank implies tallness as well as leanness.

lanky suggests awkwardness and loose-jointedness as well as thinness.

gaunt implies marked thinness or emaciation as from overwork or suffering.

rawboned suggests a large ungainly build without implying undernourishment.

scrawny and skinny imply an extreme leanness that suggests deficient strength and vitality.

meager, scanty, scant, skimpy, spare, sparse mean falling short of what is normal, necessary, or desirable.

meager implies the absence of elements, qualities, or numbers necessary to a thing's richness, substance, or potency.

scanty stresses insufficiency in amount, quantity, or extent.

scant suggests a falling short of what is desired or desirable rather than of what is essential.

skimpy usually suggests niggardliness or penury as the cause of the deficiency.

spare may suggest a slight falling short of adequacy or merely an absence of superfluity.

sparse implies a thin scattering of units.