gaunt
11gaunt — rawboned, angular, lank, lanky, *lean, spare, scrawny, skinny Analogous words: cadaverous, wasted, *haggard, worn: *thin, slim, slender, slight Contrasted words: portly, plump, *fleshy, fat, stout, corpulent, obese, rotund, chubby …
12gaunt — [adj] skinny angular, anorexic, attenuated, bare, bleak, bony, cadaverous, desolate, dismal, dreary, emaciated, forbidding, forlorn, grim, haggard, harsh, lank, lean, like a bag of bones*, meager, peaked, peaky, pinched, rawboned, scraggy,… …
13gaunt — ► ADJECTIVE 1) lean and haggard, especially through suffering, hunger, or age. 2) (of a place) grim or desolate in appearance. DERIVATIVES gauntly adverb gauntness noun. ORIGIN of unknown origin …
14Gaunt — En los libros de Harry Potter,los Gaunt eran una familia descendiente de Salazar Slytherin. Éstos son antepasados de Tom Ryddle (lord Voldemort). Vivían en una casa vieja y sucia, semioculta entre los árboles que, desde el exterior, daba la… …
15Gaunt — This unusual surname has three possible origin, the first being a locational name from the town of Thent in Flanders, from which many wool workers and other skilled craftsmen migrated to England in the early Middle Ages. The first recorded… …
16gaunt — [[t]gɔ͟ːnt[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED If someone looks gaunt, they look very thin, usually because they have been very ill or worried. Looking gaunt and tired, he denied there was anything to worry about. Syn: drawn, pinched 2) ADJ GRADED: ADJ n If you… …
17gaunt — adjective 1 very thin and pale, especially because of illness or continued worry: I looked into her face and it was gaunt with exhaustion. 2 a building, mountain etc that is gaunt looks very plain and unpleasant: a gaunt cathedral gauntness noun… …
18gaunt — [[t]gɔnt[/t]] adj. er, est 1) extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from hunger or weariness 2) bleak, desolate, or grim: the gaunt landscape of the tundra[/ex] • Etymology: 1400–50; late ME, prob. < OF gaunet, jaunet yellowish, der.… …
19gaunt — adjective 1) a gaunt, graying man Syn: haggard, drawn, thin, lean, skinny, spindly, spare, bony, angular, rawboned, pinched, hollow cheeked, scrawny, scraggy, as thin as a rail, cadaverous, skeletal …
20gaunt — adjective Etymology: Middle English Date: 15th century 1. excessively thin and angular < a long gaunt face > 2. barren, desolate Synonyms: see lean • gauntly adverb • gauntness noun …
