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Haggard

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What's The Definition Of Haggard?
[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"
[adj] showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens Synonyms | Synonyms for Haggard: bony | cadaverous | careworn | drawn | emaciated | gaunt | lean | pinched | raddled | skeletal | thin | tired | wasted | worn Related Terms | Find terms related to Haggard: abandoned | achromatic | achromic | amok | anemic | angular | ashen | ashy | attenuated | bellowing | berserk | bigoted | bled white | bloodless | blue | cadaverous | careworn | carried away | chloranemic | colorless | corpselike | dead | deadly | deadly pale | deathlike | deathly | deathly pale | delirious | demoniac | dim | dimmed | dingy | discolored | distracted | drawn | dull | ecstatic | eerie | emacerated | emaciate | emaciated | enraptured | etiolated | exhausted | exsanguinated | exsanguine | exsanguineous | extravagant | extreme | extremist | faded | fagged | faint | fallow | fanatic | fatigued | feral | ferocious | fierce | flat | frantic | frenzied | fulminating | furious | gaunt | ghastly | ghostlike | ghostly | gray | grisly | gruesome | hog-wild | hollow-eyed | howling | hueless | hypochromic | hysterical | in a transport | in hysterics | inordinate | intoxicated | irrational | jejune | lackluster | lank | leaden | lean | livid | lurid | lusterless | macabre | mad | madding | maniac | marantic | marasmic | mat | mealy | mortuary | muddy | neutral | orgasmic | orgiastic | overenthusiastic | overreligious | overzealous | pale | pale as death | pale-faced | pallid | pasty | peaked | peaky | perfervid | pinched | played out | poor | possessed | puny | rabid | raging | ramping | ranting | ravaged | raving | ravished | roaring | run-down | running mad | sallow | scraggy | scrawny | shriveled | shrunken | sickly | skeletal | skinny | spare | spent | starved | starveling | storming | tabetic | tabid | tallow-faced | tired | tired-eyed | tired-faced | tired-looking | toneless | transported | ultrazealous | uncanny | uncolored | uncontrollable | underfed | undernourished | unearthly | unreasonable | violent | wan | washed-out | wasted | waxen | weak | wearied | weary | weary-looking | weazeny | weird | whey-faced | white | wild | wild-eyed | wild-looking | withered | wizened | worn | worn-down | wraithlike | zealotic See Also | Haggard In Webster's Dictionary \Hag"gard\, a. [F. hagard; of German origin, and prop.
meaning, of the hegde or woods, wild, untamed. See {Hedge},
{1st Haw}, and {-ard}.]
1. Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty;
untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk. [Obs.] --Shak.
2. [For hagged, fr. hag a witch, influenced by haggard wild.]
Having the expression of one wasted by want or suffering;
hollow-eyed; having the features distorted or wasted, or
anxious in appearance; as, haggard features, eyes.
Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look.
--Dryden.
\Hag"gard\, n. [See {Haggard}, a.] 1. (Falconry) A young or untrained hawk or falcon. 2. A fierce, intractable creature. I have loved this proud disdainful haggard. --Shak. 3. [See {Haggard}, a., 2.] A hag. [Obs.] --Garth. \Hag"gard\, n. [See {1st Haw}, {Hedge}, and {Yard} an inclosed space.] A stackyard. [Prov. Eng.] --Swift. |
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