| 单词 | gaunt |
| 释义 | gaunt —gauntly, adv. —gauntness, n. /gawnt/, adj., gaunter, gauntest. 1. extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated. 2. bleak, desolate, or grim, as places or things: a gaunt, windswept landscape. [1400-50; late ME, prob. < OF gaunet, jaunet yellowish, deriv. of gaune, jaune yellow < L galbinus greenish-yellow] Syn. 1. lean, spare, scrawny, lank, angular, rawboned. See thin. Ant. 1. stout. |
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