Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of bone
- in compoundsnot comparableHaving a (specific type of) bone.
hollow-boned; thick-boned
1 more example
Most of the words came straight through the girls’ neat little well-powdered noses, which didn’t flinch at all. Noses are boned, you know, at least half-way down, so they don’t show the results of ill-treatment very soon.
1925 January 20, Nettie Palmer, “Buttahflays and Frogs”, in The Australian Woman’s Mirror, volume 1, number 9, Sydney, N.S.W.: […] Henry Kenneth Prior, […] for The Bulletin Newspaper Co., Ltd., […], page 16, column 3 - not comparableartOf computer-generated animations: based on models with simulated bones or joints.
- not comparableslangBeset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger.
O cruel fate, to be thusly boned. Ask not for whom the bone bones; it bones for thee.
2002, Ken Keeler, “Godfellas”, in Futurama, season 3, episode 20, spoken by Bender (John DiMaggio)Synonyms: screwed, fucked, up shit's creek
- not comparableslangBroken.
- not comparableFitted with bones.
- not comparablehobbiesHaving the legs straightened during a trick.
Bro, for sure you were all boned out, but I wasn't rolling.
2021 February 16, Charlie Berens and DudeDad, The 5 People on the Ski Slopes
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveBeset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger.
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Translations
Hungarian csontos, csontú
- csontoshaving a (specific type of) bone
- csontúhaving a (specific type of) bone
- csontozottmeat or fish with bones removed
- kicsontozottmeat or fish with bones removed
Italian fottuto, disossato
- fottutobeset with difficult or impossible situation
- disossatomeat or fish with bones removed
Norwegian Bokmål beinløs, beinlaus
- beinløsmeat or fish with bones removed
- beinlausmeat or fish with bones removed
- benløsmeat or fish with bones removed
Portuguese ferrado
- ferradobeset with difficult or impossible situation
Swedish rökt
- röktbeset with difficult or impossible situation
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with boned
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Cite this entry
boned. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boned
“boned.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boned. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “boned,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boned.
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