'Haggard' definitions:
Definition of 'haggard'
From: WordNet
adjective
Showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens [syn: careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled, worn]
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]
noun
British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925) [syn: Haggard, Rider Haggard, Sir Henry Rider Haggard]
Definition of 'Haggard'
From: GCIDE
- Haggard \Hag"gard\, n. [See Haggard, a.]
- 1. (Falconry) A young or untrained hawk or falcon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A fierce, intractable creature. [1913 Webster]
- I have loved this proud disdainful haggard. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. [See Haggard, a., 2.] A hag. [Obs.] --Garth. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Haggard'
From: GCIDE
- Haggard \Hag"gard\ (h[a^]g"g[~e]rd), a. [F. hagard; of German origin, and prop. meaning, of the hegde or woods, wild, untamed. See Hedge, 1st Haw, and -ard.]
- 1. Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. [For hagged, fr. hag a witch, influenced by haggard wild.] Having the expression of one wasted by want or suffering; hollow-eyed; having the features distorted or wasted by pain; wild and wasted, or anxious in appearance; as, haggard features, eyes. [1913 Webster]
- Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Haggard'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'haggard'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandoned,
- achromatic,
- achromic,
- amok,
- anemic,
- angular,
- ashen,
- ashy,
- attenuated,
- bellowing,
- berserk,
- bigoted,
- bled white,
- bloodless,
- blue,
- cadaverous,
- careworn,
- carried away,
- chloranemic,
- colorless,
- corpselike,
- dead,
- deadly,
- deadly pale,
- deathlike,
- deathly,
- deathly pale,
- delirious,
- demoniac,
- dim,
- dimmed,
- dingy,
- discolored,
- distracted,
- drawn,
- dull,
- ecstatic,
- eerie,
- emacerated,
- emaciate,
- emaciated,
- enraptured,
- etiolated,
- exhausted,
- exsanguinated,
- exsanguine,
- exsanguineous,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- extremist,
- faded,
- fagged,
- faint,
- fallow,
- fanatic,
- fatigued,
- feral,
- ferocious,
- fierce,
- flat,
- frantic,
- frenzied,
- fulminating,
- furious,
- gaunt,
- ghastly,
- ghostlike,
- ghostly,
- gray,
- grisly,
- gruesome,
- hog-wild,
- hollow-eyed,
- howling,
- hueless,
- hypochromic,
- hysterical,
- in a transport,
- in hysterics,
- inordinate,
- intoxicated,
- irrational,
- jejune,
- lackluster,
- lank,
- leaden,
- lean,
- livid,
- lurid,
- lusterless,
- macabre,
- mad,
- madding,
- maniac,
- marantic,
- marasmic,
- mat,
- mealy,
- mortuary,
- muddy,
- neutral,
- orgasmic,
- orgiastic,
- overenthusiastic,
- overreligious,
- overzealous,
- pale,
- pale as death,
- pale-faced,
- pallid,
- pasty,
- peaked,
- peaky,
- perfervid,
- pinched,
- played out,
- poor,
- possessed,
- puny,
- rabid,
- raging,
- ramping,
- ranting,
- ravaged,
- raving,
- ravished,
- roaring,
- run-down,
- running mad,
- sallow,
- scraggy,
- scrawny,
- shriveled,
- shrunken,
- sickly,
- skeletal,
- skinny,
- spare,
- spent,
- starved,
- starveling,
- storming,
- tabetic,
- tabid,
- tallow-faced,
- tired,
- tired-eyed,
- tired-faced,
- tired-looking,
- toneless,
- transported,
- ultrazealous,
- uncanny,
- uncolored,
- uncontrollable,
- underfed,
- undernourished,
- unearthly,
- unreasonable,
- violent,
- wan,
- washed-out,
- wasted,
- waxen,
- weak,
- wearied,
- weary,
- weary-looking,
- weazeny,
- weird,
- whey-faced,
- white,
- wild,
- wild-eyed,
- wild-looking,
- withered,
- wizened,
- worn,
- worn-down,
- wraithlike,
- zealotic