gaunt
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7.3
- adjective
- /ɡɔnt/
:
demacrado
- His face was gaunt after weeks of illness, making him look pale and worn.
My face was really gaunt with my cheeks like sunken in.
- My face was really gaunt with my cheeks like sunken in.
- Their bodies, haggard faces, gaunt limbs, bring news of the mainland.
- And so he finally lowers his hands, and he looks somehow strangely familiar, despite how gaunt and how covered in thick grey beard he is.
- Many users are complaining that their faces look old and gaunt due to the fat loss and muscle loss in their face.
- The agate eyes in a squint, that sandy ring of beard coloring the gaunt cheeks, the soiled Gray jacket half open and hanging around the sudden reddened throat.
- I said this gaunt, dark circle face looks like the.
- Frail, gaunt, small had chosen thus to fling his soul upon the growing gloom.
- And she stood in the door for a while with a myriad and sunken face lifted to the weather and one gaunt hand flax sold as the belly of a fish.
Examples
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His face was lean, almost gaunt, and his skin was very bronzed.
Fiction book (1992) -
So the older you get, the more gaunt you're going to look.
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The bobble-head lady now looks even more gaunt than she did on the campaign earlier this fall.
Blog text (21) -
Not extraordinary, but she went too far and began to look gaunt, almost skeletal.
Fiction book (1997) -
Seeing the pictures that I've seen him post on Facebook, he looks very thin, gaunt and very weak.
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My face was really gaunt with my cheeks like sunken in.
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His face was gaunt and drawn; hollows had formed under his broad cheekbones.
Fiction book (1992) -
Sunken eyes stared out of his gaunt face and broke into a crooked smile.
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His heart attack had left him weakened and gaunt, and Jacy still hadn't gotten used to the change in him.
Fiction book (1994) -
Eamon was tall and lanky, with an ever-present stubble staining his gaunt cheeks.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
298
1.3
Very thin in a way that looks unhealthy
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4.2
Very thin and weak in a way that looks unhealthy
12
7.0
Looking very tired and pale from worry, illness, or lack of food
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7.8
Extremely thin from illness or lack of food with bones showing
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6.0
Very thin with bones showing under the skin
1
9.1
Very pale and thin, looking like a dead body
1
7.0
Very thin person with little or no fat
Very thin and bony in a way that looks unhealthy
Very thin and weak because of illness or lack of use
A thin, drawn face that shows illness or hunger
Antonyms
How Thin
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gaunt is easy to remember if you imagine someone whose face looks almost 'gone' of flesh, with hollow cheeks and pale skin. It comes from old European words for 'thin' and 'worn', so gaunt today means very thin and pale, often from illness or hunger.