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100 Best Synonyms for “Leathery”

October 8, 2026

100 Best Synonyms for

No. Item Definition
1. abraded worn away by rubbing
2. aged showing the effects of age
3. animal-skin-like resembling animal skin texture
4. antiqued made to look old
5. beaten worn by repeated use
6. blotched marked with uneven spots
7. boardy stiff and somewhat hard
8. bronzed brown and weathered-looking
9. buckskin-like resembling soft tanned hide
10. bunched drawn into folds
11. burnished polished to a leather sheen
12. calloused hardened and thickened
13. chafed made sore or rough
14. coarse rough in texture
15. corrugated ridged with folds
16. craggy rough and deeply lined
17. creased marked by lines or folds
18. crinkled full of small wrinkles
19. crisp dry and slightly stiff
20. crumpled wrinkled into folds
21. cured treated and dried like leather
22. dehydrated dried from loss of moisture
23. dermal relating to skin texture
24. desiccated extremely dried out
25. distressed intentionally worn-looking
26. drawn tight and gaunt-looking
27. dried-out lacking moisture and softness
28. dry lacking moisture; not soft
29. encrusted coated with a hard surface
30. epidermal like the outer skin layer
31. fibrous stringy and tough in texture
32. firm solid and somewhat hard
33. furrowed marked with deep wrinkles
34. grained showing a textured surface pattern
35. gristly tough and hard to chew
36. grooved marked with long channels
37. hard firm and not yielding
38. hardened made hard and tough
39. harsh rough and unpleasant
40. hide-like similar to animal hide
41. hide-textured having a hide-like surface
42. hidebound having a dry, tough skin
43. hidey resembling hide in feel
44. horny hard and thickened
45. inflexible not pliable or soft
46. keratinized hardened like outer skin
47. knotted hard and unevenly textured
48. leatherlike similar to leather
49. lined showing many skin lines
50. mottled marked with irregular patches
51. oiled treated with oil for suppleness
52. old-looking appearing aged and worn
53. papery thin, dry, and crisp
54. parched extremely dry
55. parchmenty thin, dry, and skinlike
56. patinated showing an aged surface finish
57. pliant bending without breaking
58. puckered drawn into wrinkles
59. raspy rough to the touch
60. rawhide-like resembling untreated tough hide
61. ridged marked by raised lines
62. rough not smooth; harsh-textured
63. roughened made less smooth
64. rubbed worn smooth or rough
65. rugged rough and strongly textured
66. rugose wrinkled and rough
67. rumpled creased and uneven
68. seamed marked with deep lines
69. shriveled drawn up and wrinkled
70. shrunk become smaller and tighter
71. sinewy lean, tough, and stringy
72. skin-textured having a skinlike feel
73. skinlike resembling skin in texture
74. stiff not soft or flexible
75. suede-like resembling brushed leather
76. sun-dried dried out by sunlight
77. sunbaked dried and toughened by sun
78. tan brownish like tanned leather
79. tanned darkened and toughened like hide
80. taut stretched tight and firm
81. tempered made tougher by treatment
82. textured having a distinct surface feel
83. thick-skinned having thick, tough skin
84. tightened made taut and firm
85. timeworn worn by age
86. tough hard and resistant to wear
87. toughened made stronger and harder
88. unyielding not soft or easily bent
89. vellum-like resembling smooth animal skin
90. weather-beaten roughened by long exposure
91. weathered worn and rough from exposure
92. well-worn aged from much use
93. windburned dried and roughened by wind
94. wiry tough and sinewy
95. withered shrunken and dried
96. wizened dry, shrunken, and wrinkled
97. worked softened or shaped by handling
98. worn showing age and use
99. wrinkled marked with folds or creases
100. yielding soft enough to give slightly

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