Definitions for: 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"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, lean, pinched, skeletal, thin, wasted

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