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PHYSIQUE

Anorexic
Gangling: /.li/ /.l/ Describes someone, usually a boy or young man, who is very tall and thin and
moves awkwardly (in a worried or embarrassed way).
Gaunt: /nt/ /nt/ Very thin, especially because of sickness or hunger.
Haggard: /h.d/ /-d/ Looking ill or tired, often with dark skin under the eyes.
Lanky: /l.ki/ Tall and thin and often moving awkwardly as a result.
Scrawny: /skr.ni/ /skr-/ Unpleasantly thin, often with bones showing.
Skinny: /skn.i/ Very thin.
Spindly: /spnd.li/ Long or tall and thin, and looking weak.
Withered: /w.d/ /-d/ Dry and decaying. Describes an arm or leg that has not grown to its correct size
because of disease.
Agile
Athletic
Lean:
Lithe:
Petite: /ptit/ If a woman or girl is petite, she is small and thin in an attractive way.
Rangy: /ren.di/ Having long thin legs and arms.
Reedlike:
Slender: /slen.dr/ /-d/ Thin and delicate, often in a way that is attractive. Small in amount or degree.
Slight: /slat/ Small in amount or degree.
Slim
Sylphlike: /slf.lak/ (of a woman or girl) attractively thin and delicate.
Thin
Trim: /trm/ (trimmer, trimmest) Thin in an attractive and healthy way.
Willowy: /wl..i/ /-o-/ (especially of a woman) graceful (= moving smoothly and attractively) and thin.
Barrel-chested
Beefy: /bi.fi/ Describes someone who looks strong, heavy, and powerful.
Big-boned: Huesudo
Brawny: /brn/ /brn/ Physical strength and big muscles. Fit and healthy brawny /br.ni/ /br-/.
Buxom: /bk.sm/ (of a woman) healthy-looking and slightly fat, with large breasts.
Chubby: /tb.i/ (especially of children) fat in a pleasant and attractive way.
Fat
Muscular
Sinewy: /sn.ju.i/ with strong muscles and little fat.
Well-muscled
Voluptuous

SKIN COLOUR
Alabaster
Albino
Apricot: /e.pr.kt/ /-kt/ a pale orange colour.
Black
Bronze
Brown
Caramel
Cream
Ebony: /eb.n.i/ black.
Fair = Blonde
Ivory: Marfil
Lily-white: /ll.iwat/ pure white.
Milky
Nut-brown: Caf avellana Castao claro.
Olive
Red
White
Yellow

COMPLEXION (appearance and texture)
Appearance
Blush: /bl/ to become pink in the face, usually from embarrassment.
Flush: /fl/ when you flush, you become red in the face, especially as a result of strong emotions, heat, or alcohol.
Freckled: /frek.l / a small, pale brown spot on the skin, usually on the face, especially of a person with pale skin.
(Pecoso).
Glowing
Jaundiced:
; mottled; pallid; pale; pasty; rosy; ruddy; russet; sallow; splotchy; wan
Texture - acned; cadaverous; craggy; greasy; leathery; peeling; pitted; pocked; scarred; sunburnt; wrinkled

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