gauntness
31malnutrition — n undernourishment, poor diet, unbalanced diet, starvation, Psychiatry. anorexia; emaciation, gauntness, haggardness, witheredness, shrunk enness, boniness, scrawniness, skinniness, wasting away; weakening, enfeeblement, impairment, enervation,… …
32meagerness — n 1. scarceness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity, shortness; want, lack, need, stint, scarcity, poverty, paucity; poorness, inadequacy, insufficiency; bareness, slightness, skimpiness, scrimpiness; puniness, paltriness, pettiness, piddlingness,… …
33thinness — n 1. leanness, spareness, attenuation, skinniness; narrowness, slenderness, slimness, gracili ty, gracileness, slightness; gauntness, lankness, lankiness, boniness; scrawniness, scragginess, scrubbiness, puniness, runtiness, smallness. 2.… …
34gaunt — UK [ɡɔːnt] / US [ɡɔnt] adjective very thin, usually because you are ill, tired, or worried His face was pale and gaunt. Derived word: gauntness noun uncountable …
35gaunt — /gɔnt / (say gawnt) adjective 1. abnormally thin; emaciated; haggard. 2. bleak, desolate, or grim, as places or things. {Middle English, from French gaunet yellowish} –gauntly, adverb –gauntness, noun …
36gaunt — ► ADJECTIVE 1) lean and haggard, especially through suffering, hunger, or age. 2) (of a place) grim or desolate in appearance. DERIVATIVES gauntly adverb gauntness noun. ORIGIN of unknown origin …
37gauntly — gaunt ► ADJECTIVE 1) lean and haggard, especially through suffering, hunger, or age. 2) (of a place) grim or desolate in appearance. DERIVATIVES gauntly adverb gauntness noun. ORIGIN of unknown origin …
38gaunt — [gônt, gänt] adj. [ME gawnte, earlier gant, slender, thin, gaunt < ?] 1. thin and bony; hollow eyed and haggard, as from great hunger or age; emaciated 2. looking grim, forbidding, or desolate gauntly adv. gauntness n …
39emaciated — adjective very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold (Freq. 2) 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… …
40gaunt — adj. 1 lean, haggard. 2 grim or desolate in appearance. Derivatives: gauntly adv. gauntness n. Etymology: ME: orig. unkn …
