What does gaunt mean in English? Meaning of gaunt definition and abbreviation with examples.
Meaning of "gaunt": very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
Adjective
Meaning: very thin especially from disease or hunger or coldExample: 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 concentrationSynonyms: bony
cadaverous
emaciated
gaunt
haggard
pinched
skeletal
wastedSimilar: lean
thinAdjective: lean, angular, and bony 1894, Joseph Jacobs, chapter 1, The Fables of Aesop[1]: A gaunt Wolf was almost dead with hunger when he happened to meet a House-dog who was passing by.1894, Joseph Jacobs, chapter 1, The Fables of Aesop[1]: A gaunt Wolf was almost dead with hunger when he happened to meet a House-dog who was passing by.haggard, drawn, and emaciated 1917, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 5, His Last Bow[2]: In the dim light of a foggy November day the sick room was a gloomy spot, but it was that gaunt, wasted face staring at me from the bed which sent a chill to my heart.1917, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 5, His Last Bow[2]: In the dim light of a foggy November day the sick room was a gloomy spot, but it was that gaunt, wasted face staring at me from the bed which sent a chill to my heart.bleak, barren, and desolate 1908, William Hope Hodgson, chapter 14, The House on the Borderland[3]: Behind me, rose up, to an extraordinary height, gaunt, black cliffs.1908, William Hope Hodgson, chapter 14, The House on the Borderland[3]: Behind me, rose up, to an extraordinary height, gaunt, black cliffs.Synonyms:
angular, emaciated, forlorn, anorexic, thin, grim, bleak, bare, bony, cadaverous, desolate, dismal, dreary, forbidding, haggard, harsh, lean, meager, peaked, rawboned, scrawny, skeleton, spare, wasted, lank, skeletal, attenuated, like a bag of bones, peaky, pinched, scraggy, skin and bones,
Antonyms:
cheerful, joyful, plump, fat, heavy, thick, happy, hopeful, bright, sunny, well-nourished,
