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RANGY (rangier, rangiest)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rangy mean? 

RANGY (adjective)
  The adjective RANGY has 3 senses:

1. tall and thin and having long slender limbs
2. adapted to wandering or roaming
3. allowing ample room for ranging

  Familiarity information: RANGY used as an adjective is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


RANGY (adjective)


Sense 1rangy [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Tall and thin and having long slender limbs

Synonyms:

gangling; gangly; lanky; rangy

Context examples:

a gangling teenager / a lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man

Similar:

tall (great in vertical dimension; high in stature)


Sense 2rangy [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Adapted to wandering or roaming

Similar:

mobile (moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place))


Sense 3rangy [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Allowing ample room for ranging

Similar:

big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)


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