rangy

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of RANGY

being tall, thin and usually loose-jointed <we could use a rangy girl like you on our basketball team>

Synonyms gangling, gangly, rangy, spindling, spindly

Related Words angular, bony (also boney), gaunt, lank, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, skinny; lean, slender, slim, spare, thin; racy, reedy, spidery, stringy, twiggy, waspish, weedy, willowy, wiry; spindle-legged, spindle-shanked

Near Antonyms beefy, bulky, chubby, chunky, heavyset, pudgy, squat, stocky, stout, stubby, stumpy, sturdy, thick-bodied, thickset, weighty; muscle-bound; corpulent, fat, fleshy, full, gross, obese, overweight, plump, portly, roly-poly, rotund, round, tubby

having considerable extent <a speech that took a rangy look at the problems facing the university>

Synonyms broad, deep, expansive, extended, far-flung, far-reaching, rangy, sweeping, wide, wide-ranging, widespread

Near Antonyms circumscribed, limited, restricted

Antonyms narrow

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