About The Word Gaunt
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Gaunt
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What's The Definition Of Gaunt?
[adj] very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Gaunt: bony | cadaverous | emaciated | haggard | lean | pinched | skeletal | thin | wasted Related Terms | Find terms related to Gaunt: acarpous | angular | arid | bare | barren | bleak | bony | cadaverous | celibate | childless | desert | deserted | desolate | dismal | drained | dreary | dried-up | dry | emaciated | exhausted | fallow | flat | flat-chested | fleshless | forbidding | forlorn | fruitless | gangling | gangly | gawky | gelded | grim | haggard | harsh | hostile | impotent | ineffectual | infecund | infertile | inimical | issueless | jejune | lank | lanky | leached | lean | lean-fleshed | lean-looking | meager | menopausal | nonfertile | nonproducing | nonproductive | nonprolific | pinched | rawboned | scraggy | scrawny | sine prole | skeletal | skinny | spare | spidery | spindling | spindly | stark | sterile | stern | sucked dry | teemless | thin | thin-bellied | thin-fleshed | twiggy | uncultivated | undersized | underweight | unfertile | unfriendly | unfruitful | unplowed | unproductive | unprolific | unsown | untilled | virgin | waste | wasted | without issue See Also | Gaunt In Webster's Dictionary \Gaunt\, a. [Cf. Norw. gand a thin pointed stick, a tall
and thin man, and W. gwan weak.]
Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager;
pinched and grim. ``The gaunt mastiff.'' --Pope.
A mysterious but visible pestilence, striding gaunt and
fleshless across our land. --Nichols.
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