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View usage for: (gɔːnt) 1. adjectiveIf 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. Synonyms: thin, lean, skinny, skeletal More Synonyms of gaunt 2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]If you describe a building as gaunt, you mean it is very plain and unattractive. [literary] Above on the hillside was a large, gaunt, grey house. Synonyms: bleak, bare, harsh, forbidding More Synonyms of gaunt (ɡɔːnt) adjective1. bony and emaciated in appearance 2. (of places) bleak or desolate Derived forms gauntly (ˈgauntly) adverb gauntness (ˈgauntness) noun Word origin C15: perhaps of Scandinavian origin; compare Norwegian dialect gand tall lean person gaunt in American English (gɔnt; gɑnt) adjective1. thin and bony; hollow-eyed and haggard, as from great hunger or age; emaciated 2. looking grim, forbidding, or desolate Derived forms gauntly (ˈgauntly) adverb gauntness (ˈgauntness) noun Word origin ME gawnte, earlier gant, slender, thin, gaunt < ? Examples of 'gaunt' in a sentencegaunt The news explains the worrying pictures of her looking gaunt.He was thin, his face was gaunt and his skin was dull.His grey hair stands on end and his face seems more gaunt than usual, but the chief executive has lost none of his energy.She has been feeling low and looking really gaunt.But all her hard work was undone by the use of this gaunt figure.The story was false but pictures at the time showed her looking gaunt and ill.Audience members told of their shock at his gaunt appearance.He was grey and gaunt and we both cried.His new gaunt face caused a much wider public to worry about his health.Her soft fleshy limbs are gaunt and thin.He now has a great body but looks gaunt.He also looks worryingly gaunt and grey in the face.His face was gaunt and covered in soot from the powder.He just looked really thin and gaunt.But onlookers said that he appeared gaunt and thin.He was tall, gaunt and bald.He was an increasingly gaunt figure at the Square.He was also suffering from the flu, which made him appear gaunt and ill.By this time, he was gaunt and grey and weak.They make me look gaunt.She's tall and gaunt, her face pale and contorted.He was gaunt and pale, but refused make-up.We were all assembled round him when the door opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. British English: gaunt ADJECTIVE 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. - American English: gaunt
- Brazilian Portuguese: descarnado
- Chinese: 憔悴的
- European Spanish: demacrado
- French: émacié
- German: hager
- Italian: scarno
- Japanese: やせ衰えた
- Korean: 수척한
- European Portuguese: descarnado
- Latin American Spanish: demacrado
Chinese translation of 'gaunt' adj - (= haggard) [person, face, appearance]
憔悴的 (qiáocuì de) - (= grim, desolate) [place, outline]
荒凉(涼)的 (huāngliáng de)
Definition bony and emaciated in appearance Looking gaunt and tired, he denied there was anything to worry about. Synonyms drawn skin and bone rawboned macilent (rare) Opposites fat , lush , plump , stout , chubby , obese , well-fed , corpulent Definition (of a place) bleak or desolate a large, gaunt, grey house Synonyms Opposites inviting , luxurious , lush Additional synonymsDefinition lean and bony He had an angular face with prominent cheekbones. Synonyms skinny, spare, lean, gaunt, bony, lanky, scrawny, lank, rangy, rawboned, macilent (rare) Definition thin an old man with a bony face and white hair Synonyms thin, lean, skinny, angular, gaunt, skeletal, haggard, emaciated, scrawny, undernourished, cadaverous, rawboned, macilent (rare) Definition pale, thin, and haggard a tall, thin man with a cadaverous face Synonyms deathly, pale, ghastly, wan, blanched, gaunt, haggard, emaciated, bloodless, pallid, ashen, hollow-eyed, corpse-like, like death warmed up (informal), deathlike, exsanguinous - gaudiness
- gaudy
- gauge
- gaunt
- gauntlet
- gauntness
- gauzy
Additional synonymsDefinition (esp. of a person) having a trim body with no surplus flesh She watched the tall, lean figure step into the car. Synonyms thin, slim, slender, skinny, angular, trim, spare, gaunt, bony, lanky, wiry, emaciated, scrawny, svelte, lank, rangy, scraggy, macilent (rare) a small, thin woman with pinched features Synonyms thin, starved, worn, drawn, gaunt, haggard, careworn, peakyDefinition unpleasantly thin and bony a flock of scraggy sheep Synonyms scrawny, lean, skinny, angular, gaunt, bony, lanky, emaciated, undernourished, gangling, rawboned Definition very thin and bony a scrawny woman with dyed black hair Synonyms thin, lean, skinny, angular, gaunt, skeletal, bony, lanky, undernourished, skin-and-bones (informal), scraggy, rawboned, macilent (rare) a hospital filled with skeletal children Synonyms emaciated, wasted, gaunt, skin-and-bone (informal), cadaverous, hollow-cheeked, lantern-jawed, fleshless, worn to a shadow Definition extremely thin He was quite a skinny little boy. Synonyms thin, lean, scrawny, skeletal, emaciated, twiggy, undernourished, skin-and-bone (informal), scraggy, macilent (rare) Definition (of a person) tall and thin She was thin and spare, with a shapely intelligent face. Synonyms thin, lean, slim, slender, slight, meagre, gaunt, wiry, lank, macilent (rare) Definition grim, desolate, and lacking any beautiful features a stark landscape of concrete, wire and utility equipment Synonyms bleak, grim, barren, hard, cold, depressing, dreary, desolate, forsaken, godforsaken, drear (literary) Definition pale, thin, and unhealthy exercises designed to help build up his wasted limbs Synonyms emaciated, weak, weakened, withered, frail, skeletal, shrivelled, shrunken, atrophied, scrawny, wizened |