ectomorph

IPA: ˈɛktʌmɔrf

Someone with a lean, only slightly muscular body
(bodybuilding): Theoretical body type in which a person has a high metabolism. Such a person can easily maintain a low fat physique, but does not add muscle or body weight easily.

Examples of "ectomorph" in Sentences

Such men were of the ectomorph type.
She's an ectomorph (in the language of anthropometrics).
A tall, lanky, ectomorphic man who wore dark rimmed eyeglasses.
To fit a size 6 pair of jeans, you need narrower than average hips - an 'ectomorph' build.
I am a rather pale scrawny blue-eyed ectomorph of nearly pure Northern European ancestry, as far as I can tell.
Gwyneth Paltrow may be a gangling ectomorph today, but she struggled to lose weight after giving birth to her second child in 2006.
Gwyneth Paltrow may be a "gangling ectomorph" today, but she struggled to lose weight after giving birth to her second child in 2006.
And for those of us who have lawns, the ease of strapping the mower on the back of the bike and pedaling out onto the grass to dismount and unload, is much more exciting than the sweaty ectomorph on sidigayporn.com.
John Kruk, the ESPN analyst who was anything but an ectomorph during his playing days, said the signings show that baseball has returned to an understanding that physical appearance doesn't matter as much as quick wrists and live arms.
We know, as I observed in my last post, that her primary strategy has been to portray him as an effeminate, elitist, and fragile ectomorph who will be weak in the face of aggression, and who will be readily done in by America's more burly antagonists.