Gaunt

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gaunt \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.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           A mysterious but visible pestilence, striding gaunt and
           fleshless across our land.               --Nichols.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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" [syn: {bony},
             {cadaverous}, {emaciated}, {haggard}, {pinched}, {skeletal},
              {wasted}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  89 Moby Thesaurus words for "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