rangy

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From range + -y.

The husky is a long, rangy dog, with more body and longer legs than the malamute and with a shorter coat. — Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled: A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska, Hudson Stuck
Not more than four or five hundred feet from the open space, and heading directly toward it, thundered a rider on a tall, strong, rangy horse. — 'Firebrand' Trevison, Charles Alden Seltzer
There was a shift of speakers then, this time a private, still too rangy, but his looseness of frame seeming already to conform to the exigency of uniform. — Americans All: Stories of American Life of To-Day, Unknown

gangling, gangly, lanky

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