Synonyms for peaky
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : pee-kee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpi ki |
Top 10 synonyms for peaky Other synonyms for the word peaky
- ailing
- ashen
- attenuated
- bag of bones
- bare
- below par
- bilious
- blanched
- bloodless
- bony
- cadaverous
- consumptive
- craving
- dead
- deathlike
- deathly
- delicate
- desolate
- diseased
- dismal
- dog-hungry
- down
- dragging
- drawn
- dreary
- emaciated
- empty
- exsanguinous
- faint
- famished
- flying light
- forbidding
- gaunt
- ghastly
- ghostly
- haggard
- harsh
- have munchies
- hungering
- ill
- in bad shape
- in poor health
- indisposed
- infirm
- lackluster
- laid-low
- languid
- lank
- lean
- like a bag of bones
- low
- malnourished
- meager
- mean
- off-color
- out of action
- out of shape
- pallid
- peaked
- peaky
- peckish
- perishing
- pinched
- pining
- poorly
- rattleboned
- ravenous
- rawboned
- rocky
- run-down
- sallow
- scraggy
- scrawny
- seedy
- shadowy
- sick
- sickish
- sickly
- skeletal
- skeleton
- skeletonlike
- skin and bones
- skinny
- spare
- spectral
- starved
- thin
- under the weather
- underfed
- undernourished
- unhealthy
- wan
- wasted
- weak
- weakened
Définition of peaky
- As in peaked : adj pale, sick
- As in sickly : adj not healthy
- As in starving : adj deprived
- As in cadaverous : adj pale, corpselike
- As in gaunt : adj skinny
- He's a peaky little chap; it comes of being a poet, I think.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Treasure Seekers » by E. Nesbit
- It is like liberty itself, after the peaky confinement of Sicily.
- Extract from : « Sea and Sardinia » by D. H. Lawrence
- She might be described as pretty, but "peaky" and "spindling."
- Extract from : « The Soul of Susan Yellam » by Horace Annesley Vachell
- Why or wherefore I don't know, but these last days she has been as peaky as can be.
- Extract from : « A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) » by Frances Eleanor Trollope
- Them peaky little clams a'most puts out all my shoulder-blades, and wunna bite through a twine of gristle.
- Extract from : « Mary Anerley » by R. D. Blackmore
- "Your brother is gettin' to be the peaky one, nowadays," went on Mrs. Gates, with her placid frankness.
- Extract from : « The Hallowell Partnership » by Katharine Holland Brown
- There are peaky, dark mountains beyond this—just as across the vast bay are gloomy hills.
- Extract from : « Sea and Sardinia » by D. H. Lawrence
- I thought there was something wrong about you when you came in; you had a peaky, under-fed look.
- Extract from : « Doctor Luttrell's First Patient » by Rosa Nouchette Carey
- His features were peaky and sallow, and his little pointed beard was thready and ill-nourished.
- Extract from : « Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes » by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- His peaky little beard, and the way he carried himself, as well as the quickness of his movements, told one that.
- Extract from : « Under the Chinese Dragon » by F. S. Brereton
Antonyms for peaky
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