Meanings
adjectiveunderfleshed (comparative more underfleshed, superlative most underfleshed)
comparative more underfleshed · superlative most underfleshed
- Lacking flesh or substance; skinny or scanty.
His lines are jazzy and improvisational, as though he is trying to figure himself out on the page, and the poems themselves are skinny and underfleshed; one in this new collection is called Poem on Toilet Paper, but they all look as though they were written that way.
2007 December 23, David Kirby, “Needing No Weatherman”, in New York Times
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underfleshed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/underfleshed
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“underfleshed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/underfleshed. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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