Home › Words › L › leptosomaticleptosomaticleptosomatic means having a tall, thin body.EtymologyFrom lepto- + somatic.adjHaving a tall, thin body.e.g.“It's possibly odd that the leptosomatic Mario I., so damaged he can't even grip a stick, much less flail at a moving ball with one, is the one kid at E.T.A. whose company Schtitt seeks out […]” — 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 79:nounA person having this body type; a leptosome.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).