Rangy

Definitions: Rangy

Rangy

Adjective

1. Tall and thin and having long slender limbs; "a gangling teenager"; "a lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man".

2. Adapted to wandering or roaming.

3. Allowing ample room for ranging.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "rangy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references)

Note: Rangy \Ran"gy\, adjective. [From Range, intransitive verb.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Rangy

Albanian

shëtitës (ambulant, ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, rambler, Ranger, stroller, strolling, traveling, travelling, walking), i shtatdredhur, i gjerë (ample, broad, broadminded, capacious, champaign, commodious, expanded, extensive, far flung, far reaching, hospitable, large, large scale, liberal, massive, mighty, roomy, spacious, splay, sweeping, vast, vasty, wide), endacak (bum, errant, gadabout, gadder, gipsy, goer, gypsy, hobo, landloper, nomad, prowler, Ranger, rover, runabout, runagate, sansculotte, staggerer, stroller, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, wandering). (various references)

Bulgarian 

склонен към скитничество, тънък и висок, обширен (ample, broad, commodious, comprehensive, expansive, extensive, far flung, generic, large, large scale, spacious, vast, vasty, voluminous, wide), просторен (commodious, expansive, extended, extensive, large, oceanic, roomy, spacious, vast, wide), планински (montane, mountain, mountainous, upland), дългокрак (leggy). (various references)

Greek 

υψιλόσ, λεπτόσ (dainty, delicate, exquisite, fine, flimsy, gossamery, lank, nice, refined, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, slimsy, subtile, subtle, svelte, tactful, tenuous, thin, ticklish, waspish). (various references)

Hebrew 

�'בו�" ורז�" (lanky). (various references)

Hungarian

karcsú (attenuate, fine, jimp, lank, lithe, reedy, slender, slight, slim, svelte), hegyes-völgyes, nyúlánk (fine, slender, willowy), hegyvonulatos, dombos (downy, hilly, mamillary, undulating). (various references)

Pig Latin

angyray.(various references)

Portuguese

montanhoso (hilly, mountainous, up and down), esguio (lank, lanky, lean, slender, slim, thin), de pernas altas, ativo (abuzz, acting, active, adroit, aggressive, agile, alive, astir, brisk, busy, deedful, efficient, energetics, havings, industrious, light, live, lively, living, nippy, operative, pushful, quick, rustler, smart, spry, stirring, strenuous, vivacious, vivid), alto (aloud, altisonant, bump, elevated, great, height, high, high-flown, hightoned, lofty, loud, loudly, screaming, screamy, stand up, stop, tall, top), acidentado (bumpy, hilt, ridged, ridgy, rough, rugged, up and down, waggly). (various references)

Russian 

обширный (ample, big, broad, expansive, extended, extensive, far flung, far-flung, large, long, spacious, vast, voluminous, wide-ranging), бродячий (down-and-out, knock about, nomad, nomadic, rambling, strolling, wandering), просторный (airy, ample, capacious, commodious, loose, roomy, spacious, wide), длинноногий (leggy, long-legged, spindle-legged). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prostran (broad, capacious, commodious, extensive, spacious, vast), okretan (agile, nimble, swift-handed, tripping), hitar (agile, expeditious, fast, light-heeled, light-legged, nippy, quick, rash, trig), dugih udova. (various references)

Spanish

montañoso (highland, hilly, mountainous), alto y delgado (lank). (various references)

Swedish

långbent (leggy). (various references)

Ukranian 

неосяжний (immense), бродячий (knockabout, nomad, nomadic, rambling, roving, runagate, strolling, vagrant), блукаючий (errant, erring, erroneous, planetary, wandering), просторий (acred, ample, broad, capacious, commodious, expansive, extensive, far flung, loose, omnibus, space, spacious, wide), довгоногий (leggy). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "rangy": orangy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Rangy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: argy, bangy, eragny, fangy, Krengiel, langy, orangy, pangy, raargh, radgy, ragey, ragy, Ranby, ranga, Rangaya, rangey, rangh, rangi, rangs, Raniya, Ranj, Ranjit, ranky, rany, Rargh, Regny, rengy, riang, rigy, rinay, ringi, ringy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: angry.

-1 letter: gnar, gran, gray, nary, rang, yang, yarn.

-2 letters: any, gan, gar, gay, nag, nay, rag, ran, ray, rya, yar.

-3 letters: ag, an, ar, ay, na, ya.

+1 letter: anergy, angary, gantry, gnarly, grainy, granny, orangy, raying.

+2 letters: agentry, angerly, angrily, braying, draying, fraying, gauntry, granary, grandly, graying, orangey, organdy, praying, syringa, varying, yarding, yarning.

+3 letters: agrimony, agronomy, agrypnia, arraying, carrying, dairying, daringly, foraying, frayings, garganey, grayling, grayness, greenway, guaranty, gynandry, gynarchy, gyniatry, gyrating, gyration, harrying, laryngal, larynges, layering, marrying, nugatory, orangery, parrying, partying, ragingly, rallying, ravingly, readying, regnancy, relaying, repaying, resaying, spraying, stingray, straying, synergia, syringas, tarrying, vagrancy, vinegary, wearying, yearling, yearlong, yearning.

+4 letters: adoringly, aerifying, affraying, agrypnias, androgyne, androgyny, angularly, argufying, aroynting, betraying, bewraying, bracingly, brandying, candygram, carpingly, clergyman, crayoning, dairyings, darlingly, defraying, dignitary, dragonfly, estraying, flagrancy, flaringly, fragrancy, gainsayer, gallantry, garganeys, generally, germanely, glaringly, glengarry, grandaddy, grandbaby, gratingly, graylings, greenways, gyrations, gyrfalcon, gyroplane, hooraying, hurraying, hydrangea, hydrating, imaginary, jarringly, laryngals, laryngeal, lawyering, layerings, legendary, legionary, martyring, niggardly, nongreasy, pageantry, panegyric, panfrying, pargyline, parlaying, parleying, parodying, pharynges, pratingly, pregnancy, prepaying, quarrying, rackingly, rallyings, ramifying, rantingly, rarefying, rarifying, raspingly, ratifying, replaying, roaringly, salarying, searingly, sergeancy, sergeanty, signatory, sparingly, stingrays, strangely, strangury, synergias, unvarying, vagrantly, vainglory, varyingly, warningly, wayfaring, wearingly, yabbering, yammering, yattering, yearlings, yearnings.

+5 letters: admiringly, alarmingly, alluringly, androgynes, angularity, arrogantly, atrophying, bewearying, blarneying, candygrams, carnifying, charmingly, clarifying, craniology, crashingly, degeneracy, draggingly, drawlingly, flagrantly, fragrantly, gainsayers, gallerying, gastronomy, gendarmery, generality, germinally, granddaddy, granophyre, graspingly, gratifying, graynesses, gynandries, gynandrous, gynarchies, gyniatries, gyrational, gyrfalcons, gyroplanes, hydrangeas, ignorantly, inarguably, integrally, ladyfinger, laryngeals, laryngitic, laryngitis, lawyerings, loganberry, marginally, mineralogy, nomography, organicity, organology, originally, outpraying, overlaying, overpaying, oxygenator, panegyrics, panegyrist, paralysing, paralyzing, pargylines, pharyngeal, pigmentary, playground, portraying, pregnantly, pyramiding, quarryings, ramblingly, rattlingly, reapplying, recarrying, regeneracy, regionally, remarrying, renography, repugnancy, respraying, sanguinary, scarifying, segmentary, singularly, skylarking, sonography, trigonally, unarguably, urbanology, venography, virginally, waveringly, yearningly.

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