skinniest
- 1Superlative of skinny.
He was the skinniest player on the team until he started lifting weights in college.
These are the skinniest jeans the store sells, and I can barely sit down in them.
Note
About people it keeps the unflattering edge of skinny, thinness as too little rather than the attractive thinness of slim, so being called the skinniest kid is rarely a compliment where the slimmest would be. Lou Schuler recalls being the skinniest thirteen-year-old he knew when he started lifting. It also grades clothes cut tight, as in the skinniest jeans in the shop.
skinniest is a form of skinny
skinny, adjective: Thin, generally in an unflattering sense, unlike slim, which describes thinness as attractive. Full entry
- Spelling
- skinny → skinniest: change y to i, add -est
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