lankyEnglishOxford American Thesauruslanky adjective a pale-skinned, lanky youth: tall, thin, slender, slim, lean, lank, skinny, spindly, spare, gangling, gangly, scrawny, skeletal, scraggly, emaciated, size-zero, bony, gaunt, rawboned, gawky, rangy, skin-and-bones, angular, pinched, attenuated; informal weedy. ▷antonyms short, fat, stocky.