Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An individual having a lean, slightly muscular body build in which tissues derived from the embryonic ectoderm predominate.
Wiktionary
- n. Someone with a lean, only slightly muscular body
- n. : 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person with a thin body
Etymologies
- ecto(derm) + -morph.
Examples
“To fit a size 6 pair of jeans, you need narrower than average hips - an 'ectomorph' build.”
“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.”
“Gwyneth Paltrow may be a "gangling ectomorph" today, but she struggled to lose weight after giving birth to her second child in 2006.”
The Huffington Post: Gwyneth Paltrow: Losing Baby Weight Was 'By Far Hardest Thing I've Ever Done'
“Gwyneth Paltrow may be a gangling ectomorph today, but she struggled to lose weight after giving birth to her second child in 2006.”
The Huffington Post: Gwyneth Paltrow: Losing Baby Weight Was 'By Far Hardest Thing I've Ever Done'
“She's an ectomorph (in the language of anthropometrics).”
The Huffington Post: Gwyneth Paltrow In 'Vogue': Owns 2 Outdoor Pizza Ovens, Deep-Fat Fryer (PHOTOS)
“I am a rather pale scrawny blue-eyed ectomorph of nearly pure Northern European ancestry, as far as I can tell.”
“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.”
“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.”
Stephen Ducat: Death Wish II: What Hillary Was Aiming at With Her Two Assassination "Gaffes"
“There but for the grace of the ectomorph gods, I told myself, go I.”
“But he is an unfortunate speaker: a bespectacled ectomorph with a nasal, extremely high-pitched voice.”
Lists
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sonofgroucho I'm not one of these---I'm an endomorph. Apr 9, 2007