rangy
Other forms: rangier; rangiest
People who are rangy are tall and thin, with long arms and legs. You could describe a skinny young basketball player as rangy.
This adjective most often describes someone who's very tall and slim, or even a little gawky, like a teenager with big feet and long legs who hasn't finished growing and is awkward in their own body. More rarely, rangy means "tending, allowed, or allowing to roam," like a rangy stray dog or a wide, rangy field. It comes from the verb range, or "move freely over a wide area."
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tall and thin and having long slender limbs
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adapted to wandering or roaming
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Synonyms:
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mobile
moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place)
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mobile
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allowing ample room for ranging
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