English Explanatory Dictionary

close to the bone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Penetrating and relatable, to the point of causing discomfort.
  2. Destitute.

Word forms

close to the bone closer to the bone closest to the bone

Synonyms

too close for comfort poor hard up almsless arm badly off bankrupt beggared beggarly boracic broke broken broker than the Ten Commandments depauperate destitute dirt poor disadvantaged down and out down at heel down on one's luck down on one's uppers empty-handed feeling the pinch flat goodless impecunious impoverished in need indigent insolvent lower-class necessitous needy oofless pauperized penniless penurious pinched pok kai poor as a church mouse poor as a rat poor as Job possessionless poverty-ridden poverty-stricken shillingless skint stone-broke stony-broke strapped stuck threadbare unwealthy wealthless
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