'Gaunt' definitions:
Definition of 'gaunt'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted]
Definition of 'Gaunt'
From: GCIDE
- Gaunt \Gaunt\, a. [Cf. Norw. gand a thin pointed stick, a tall and thin man, and W. gwan weak.] Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim. "The gaunt mastiff." --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- A mysterious but visible pestilence, striding gaunt and fleshless across our land. --Nichols. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'gaunt'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acarpous,
- angular,
- arid,
- bare,
- barren,
- bleak,
- bony,
- cadaverous,
- celibate,
- childless,
- desert,
- deserted,
- desolate,
- dismal,
- drained,
- dreary,
- dried-up,
- dry,
- emaciated,
- exhausted,
- fallow,
- flat,
- flat-chested,
- fleshless,
- forbidding,
- forlorn,
- fruitless,
- gangling,
- gangly,
- gawky,
- gelded,
- grim,
- haggard,
- harsh,
- hostile,
- impotent,
- ineffectual,
- infecund,
- infertile,
- inimical,
- issueless,
- jejune,
- lank,
- lanky,
- leached,
- lean,
- lean-fleshed,
- lean-looking,
- meager,
- menopausal,
- nonfertile,
- nonproducing,
- nonproductive,
- nonprolific,
- pinched,
- rawboned,
- scraggy,
- scrawny,
- sine prole,
- skeletal,
- skinny,
- spare,
- spidery,
- spindling,
- spindly,
- stark,
- sterile,
- stern,
- sucked dry,
- teemless,
- thin,
- thin-bellied,
- thin-fleshed,
- twiggy,
- uncultivated,
- undersized,
- underweight,
- unfertile,
- unfriendly,
- unfruitful,
- unplowed,
- unproductive,
- unprolific,
- unsown,
- untilled,
- virgin,
- waste,
- wasted,
- without issue