gaunt

[ gawnt ]

/ gɔnt /

adjective, gaunt·er, gaunt·est.

extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated.

bleak, desolate, or grim, as places or things: a gaunt, windswept landscape.

Origin of gaunt

1400–50; late Middle English, probably < Old French gaunet, jaunet yellowish, derivative of gaune, jaune yellow < Latin galbinus greenish-yellow

SYNONYMS FOR gaunt

1 lean, spare, scrawny, lank, angular, rawboned. See thin.

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ANTONYMS FOR gaunt

1 stout.

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OTHER WORDS FROM gaunt

gaunt·ly, adverb gaunt·ness, noun

Words nearby gaunt

gaultheria, gaultier, gaum, gaumless, gaun, gaunt, gauntlet, gauntlet bandage, gauntry, gaup, gaur

Example sentences from the Web for gauntness

Possibly it was the gauntness of the face that caused him to appear older than he was, possibly its gravity.

The Man Who Was Good |Leonard Merrick
Starved to gauntness, obviously the animal had been receiving neither food nor attention.

Trading Jeff and his Dog |James Arthur Kjelgaard
It is the stubbled chin that completes the gauntness of the shipwrecked countenance.

My Danish Sweetheart., Volume 2 of 3 |William Clark Russell
She also saw how worn his face was, and the gauntness of his frame, and her compassion was stronger than her pride.

Long Odds |Harold Bindloss

His is a wall-paper with a vengeance—one quarter of the universe laid bare in all its gauntness.

Across the Plains |Robert Louis Stevenson

British Dictionary definitions for gauntness

gaunt

/ (ɡɔːnt) /

adjective

bony and emaciated in appearance

(of places) bleak or desolate

Derived forms of gaunt

gauntly, adverb gauntness, noun

Word Origin for gaunt

C15: perhaps of Scandinavian origin; compare Norwegian dialect gand tall lean person

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gaunt

adjective, gaunt·er, gaunt·est.

Origin of gaunt

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OTHER WORDS FROM gaunt

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Example sentences from the Web for gauntness

British Dictionary definitions for gauntness

adjective

Derived forms of gaunt

Word Origin for gaunt

BROWSE DICTIONARY

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gaunt

adjective, gaunt·er, gaunt·est.

Origin of gaunt

SYNONYMS FOR gaunt

ANTONYMS FOR gaunt

OTHER WORDS FROM gaunt

Words nearby gaunt

Words related to gauntness

Example sentences from the Web for gauntness

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adjective

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