Gaunt

Word GAUNT
Character 5
Hyphenation gaunt
Pronunciations /ɡɑːnt/

Definitions and meanings of "Gaunt"

What do we mean by gaunt?

Thin or emaciated: synonym: lean. adjective

Bleak or desolate. adjective

The great crested grebe or cargoose, Podiceps cristatus. noun

To make lean.

See gant.

Shrunken, as with fasting or suffering; emaciated; lean; thin; haggard.

Characterized by or producing emaciation; famishing; attenuating: as, gaunt poverty.

Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim. adjective

Lean, angular, and bony adjective

Haggard, drawn, and emaciated adjective

Bleak, barren, and desolate adjective

Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold adjective

Lean, angular and bony

Haggard, drawn and emaciated

Bleak, barren and desolate

Synonyms and Antonyms for Gaunt

The word "gaunt" in example sentences

Our young-old faces, chiseled and gaunt from the fever and the heat and the sleepless nights, now stare back at us, lost and damned strangers, frozen in yellowing snapshots packed away in cardboard boxes with our medals and our ribbons. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Balding, gray-haired, just five feet eight in his stocking feet, he had what one journalist called the gaunt demeanor of a church elder. ❋ Ivo H. Daalder (2009)

Morgan recalled the gaunt anxiety of Mrs. Conboy's eyes, hollow of every emotion, as they seemed, but unrest and straining fear. ❋ George W. Ogden (N/A)

For the rest, I recall a gaunt Baptist in wood, said to be by Donatello, on one of the altars to the left of the choir; and the bronze Baptist in the Baptistery, less realistic, by Sansovino; the pretty figures of ❋ Harry [Illustrator] Morley (1903)

The preacher at the Cross that day was a Black Friar -- a tall spare man, whom some might call gaunt and ungainly; a man of quick intelligence and radiant eyes, of earnest gesture and burning words. ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)

The suspect driving the vehicle was described as a gaunt, white male, with salt and pepper colored hair, approximately 50 years of age and had a deep pock mark scar on his left cheek. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He looked "gaunt," Paola said, unshaven and much thinner than the Maziar she knows. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Well, Arbogast really should un-squeeze his grabs before posting them, but I wouldn't say 'gaunt'. ❋ Arbogast (2008)

It was a frame house, two stories in front, kind of gaunt-looking with the usual porches front and back and on the side, and only one story in back for the kitchen and the dining room. ❋ Unknown (1976)

As has been finely said the whole church is "gaunt" and unbeautiful; it is a depressing mixture of styles, Roman, Romano-Byzantine, and Gothic; and in studying its one fine detail, a photograph or a drawing is much more satisfactory than an hour's tantalising effort to see the original. ❋ Elise Whitlock Rose (N/A)

Mexico some that possessed all that "gaunt" form and "sneaking" aspect that characterize the latter. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

He believes, moreover, that those of the Southern parts of the American continent approximate more nearly to the Pyrenean wolves, as he has seen in the tropical forests of Mexico some that possessed all that "gaunt" form and "sneaking" aspect that characterise the latter. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

After arriving at the north London studio looking "gaunt" and "washed-out", the 27-year-old pop star - who is currently divorcing her husband, soccer player Ashley Cole - collapsed unconscious just minutes after the shoot began. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After arriving at the north London studio looking "gaunt" and "washed-out", the 27-year-old pop star - who is currently divorcing her cheating husband, soccer player Ashley Cole - collapsed unconscious just minutes after the shoot began. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After arriving at the north London studio looking "gaunt" and "washed-out", the 27-year-old pop star - who is currently divorcing her cheating husband, soccer player ❋ Unknown (2010)

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