beanstalk
[ been-stawk ]
Synonyms for beanstalk
- angular
- gangly
- gaunt
- rangy
- scrawny
- slender
- spindly
- attenuated
- beanpole
- bony
- broomstick
- extenuated
- gangling
- lean
- meager
- rawboned
- scraggy
- spare
- spindling
- stilt
- stringy
- twiggy
- weedy
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In my own I can only say that Jack's beanstalk was a backward plant in comparison.
Here they seemed to have climbed the beanstalk into a new world.
It seemed like the place Jack reached when he had climbed up the beanstalk.
Jack and the Beanstalk is the eleventh of the series, and the best.
The question is, what should I find at the top of this beanstalk—I should say, willow-tree?
By my power the beanstalk grew to so great a height and formed a ladder.
Jack was overjoyed when he found himself near the beanstalk.
Jacks mother was delighted when she saw the beanstalk destroyed.
The ogre felt the beanstalk shake and quiver so he stopped to see what was the matter.
And he has grown up his own beanstalk, he says, and that is what makes him so tall.
RELATED WORDS AND SYNONYMS FOR BEANSTALK
beanpole
nouna tall, thin personlank
adjectivethin- all skin and bones
- angular
- attenuate
- attenuated
- beanpole
- beanstalk
- bony
- cadaverous
- delicate
- emaciated
- ethereal
- featherweight
- fleshless
- fragile
- gangling
- gangly
- gaunt
- haggard
- lanky
- lean
- lightweight
- meager
- narrow
- peaked
- pinched
- pole
- puny
- rangy
- rarefied
- rawboned
- reedy
- rickety
- scraggy
- scrawny
- shadow
- shriveled
- skeletal
- skinny
- slender
- slight
- slim
- slinky
- small
- spare
- spindly
- stalky
- starved
- stick
- stilt
- subtle
- thin as a rail
- threadlike
- twiggy
- twiglike
- undernourished
- underweight
- wan
- wasted
- weedy
- wizened
meager
adjectivevery thinslender/slim
adjectivethin, not heavyRoget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.