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Gaunt Definition And Meaning
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.

Gaunt Definition And Meaning

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"

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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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