Word Study
spindly
CIDE DICTIONARY
spindly, a.
Long and slender, or disproportionately tall and slender; as, spindly legs.. Used in some cases to suggest weakness. [PJC]
THESAURUS
spindly
bony, dilapidated, doddering, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, groggy, lank, lanky, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, meager, ramshackle, rangy, rawboned, ricketish, rickety, rocky, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, skeletal, skinny, spare, spidery, spindling, teetering, teetery, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, tottering, tottery, tumbledown, twiggy, undersized, underweight, unsteady, wobblyFor further exploring for "spindly" in Webster Dictionary Online