haggard English

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haggard Adjective

— If a person looks haggard, they look exhausted from fatigue, worry or suffering. Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look.

haggard

— adjective (= careworn, drawn, raddled, worn) 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

— adjective (= bony, emaciated, gaunt, 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

Haggard

— noun British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)

Synonyms haggard synonyms

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gaunt

emaciated

drawn

worn

cadaverous

wan

tired

thin

sunken

suffer

skeletal

pallid

pale

hollow-cheeked

hollow

exhausted

careworn

become emaciated

wasted

scrawny

sallow

rawboned

raddled

pinched

lean

green

bony

blear

be worn out

yellowish

wretched

worried

worn out

wizened

wild

weary

wearied

waxlike

sorry

skinny

sick

shrivelled

seedy

scrubby

scrub

scraggy

rundown

pitiable

piteous

peaked

Haggard English » English

Sir Henry Rider Haggard

Rider Haggard

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Person Body condition

Tired

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  tired exhausted tired out worn out weary shattered drained beat dead beat be dead on your feet be ready to drop bushed pooped tuckered out knackered run down spent dog-tired haggard