ectomorph UK /ˈɛktəʊmɔːf/US /ˈɛktoʊmɔːɹf/ noun2 •Someone with a lean, only slightly muscular bodyAlso there was a woman I hadn't met, a chain-smoking French ectomorph whose job it was to make sense of records of public spending in the Ministry of Finance. — 1990 •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. formsectomorphs