gaunt English

Meaning gaunt meaning

What does gaunt mean?

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gaunt Adjective

— If someone is gaunt, they are thin and bony. The month-long food shortage left everyone looking gaunt.

gaunt

— adjective (= bony, emaciated, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted) 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 gaunt synonyms

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gaunt English » English

lean

thin

skinny

emaciated

dismal

slender

sad

miserable

meager

skimpy

haggard

dreary

scrawny

somber

bony

bleak

desolate

cadaverous

wasted

wan

spare

skeletal

rawboned

pinched

lank

gloomy

drawn

barren

waste

sullen

stark

sparse

slim

scarce

scanty

ravenous

poor

mournful

meagre

lanky

few

deserted

desert

blear

bare

angular

worries

worn

weak

unpleasant

Topics gaunt topics

What do people use gaunt to talk about?

States Big Thick

Thin person

• What words describe someone who is very thin?
  emaciated skeletal be skin and bones underweight gaunt
• What words describe a face that is thin?
  pinched drawn gaunt hollow cheeks