gauntadjective
uk/ɡɔːnt/us/ɡɑːnt/very thin, especially because of sickness or hunger:
Her face was gaunt and grey.
literary empty and not attractive:
The house looked gaunt and unwelcoming.
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Animal physiology: thin or slender (of people)
- anorexic
- bag of bones
- be skin and bone(s) idiom
- elfin
- emaciated
- hatchet-faced
- lissome
- lithe
- pinched
- rangy
- skinny
- slenderize
- slight
- spare
- spindly
- sylphlike
- trim
- underweight
- waif-like
- wiry
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Not fit & healthy
Not attractive to look at
gauntness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈɡɔːnt.nəs/us/ˈɡɑːnt.nəs/