gauntness

  • 21angularity — an·gu·lar·i·ty || ‚æŋgjÊŠ lærÉ™tɪ n. stiffness, lack of grace; boniness, gauntness; angular outlines or characteristics …

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  • 22angularness — n. stiffness, rigidity; boniness, gauntness; obliqueness …

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  • 23boniness — n. prominence of bones, gauntness, skinniness …

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  • 24gaunt — adjective 1》 lean and haggard, especially through illness, hunger, or age. 2》 (of a place) grim or desolate in appearance. Derivatives gauntly adverb gauntness noun Origin ME: of unknown origin …

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  • 25lankness — n. Leanness, thinness, slimness, meagreness, slenderness, attenuation, gauntness, emaciation …

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  • 26thinness — n. 1. Slenderness, slimness, meagreness, leanness, gauntness, emaciation, lankness. 2. Meagreness, poorness, slenderness. 3. Tenuity, fineness, slenderness, delicacy, exiguity. 4. Tenuity, rareness. 5. Rarity, rareness, tenuity, subtilty,… …

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  • 27gaunt — adjective 1 very thin and pale, especially because of illness or continued worry: I looked into her face and it was gaunt with exhaustion. 2 a building, mountain etc that is gaunt looks very plain and unpleasant: a gaunt cathedral gauntness noun… …

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  • 28haggard — haggard, worn, careworn, pinched, wasted, cadaverous are comparable when they mean thin and drawn by or as if by worry, fatigue, hunger, or illness. Haggard may imply a wild frightening appearance (as of a person driven distraught by fear,… …

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  • 29bareness — n 1. nakedness, nudeness, nudity, undress; disrobement, divestment, divestiture; baldness, featherlessness. 2. plainness, simpleness, simplicity, pureness, purity; severity, starkness, austerity; brevity, laconism; unadornment, unembellishment,… …

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  • 30emaciation — n 1. gauntness, haggardness, witheredness, shrunkenness, boniness; scrawniness, scragginess, spareness, skinniness, thinness, leanness, lankness, lankiness, slimness, slenderness, attenuation, tenuity; Psychiatry. anorexia. 2. atrophy, atrophia,… …

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