[
UK
/ɹˈæŋi/
]
[ US /ˈɹeɪndʒi/ ]
[ US /ˈɹeɪndʒi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- adapted to wandering or roaming
- allowing ample room for ranging
-
tall and thin and having long slender limbs
a lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man
a gangling teenager
How To Use rangy In A Sentence
- Another is a rangy assemblage of vicious thorns, called myrrh, a second gift of the Magi. NYT > Home Page
- They were the first longhorns in the territory and Elisha kept them hidden in a back pasture so he wouldn't be laughed at for spending money on the rangy beasts.
- He was lean and rangy and had an easy-going, languid air about him.
- The thug strove furiously to clamp his meaty paws around the lighter man's neck, but the deceptive strength of the other's rangy thews held him at bay.
- When the Weekender called the bar was full of farmers coming from the local mart - rangy men who know all about rams, ewes and hoggets.
- The man was several inches taller than Russell, with the typical broad shoulders and rangy build of a professional seaman.
- Above us tower the stunning orangy-red sides of a narrow cleft through the sandstone. Times, Sunday Times
- Their top spark was a rangy, well-knit Ulsterman with sandy whiskers and a soft-spoken honeycomb voice; his name, he informed me, was Grattan Nugent-Hare, "with the hyphen, sir which is a bit of a pose, don't ye know, but I'm attached to it. Isabelle
- The dark brindle rangy one is my old Riley, a cross of coldblood greyhound and Scottish deerhound. Dog Origins
- The one in the middle was tall and rangy and wore a shiny fake leather jacket and tight black jeans.