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gaunt

(gônt)

adj. gaunt·er, gaunt·est

1. Thin or emaciated: "Her smile took up ever more of her increasingly gaunt face" (Lindsey Crittenden). See Synonyms at lean ².

2. Bleak or desolate: "She walked along fast ... scared of ... the few shadowy people and the old gaunt houses with their wide inky doorways" (John Dos Passos).

[Middle English, perhaps from Old French gant, possibly of Scandinavian origin.]

gaunt′ly adv.

gaunt′ness n.

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gaunt

(ɡɔːnt)

adj

1. bony and emaciated in appearance

2. (of places) bleak or desolate

[C15: perhaps of Scandinavian origin; compare Norwegian dialect gand tall lean person]

ˈgauntly adv

ˈgauntness n

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

gaunt

(gɔnt)

adj. -er, -est.

1. extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from hunger or weariness.

2. bleak, desolate, or grim: the gaunt landscape of the tundra.

[1400–50; late Middle English, probably < Old French gaunet, jaunet yellowish, derivative of gaune, jaune yellow < Latin galbinus greenish yellow]

gaunt′ly, adv.

gaunt′ness, n.

Gaunt

(gɔnt, gɑnt)

n.

John of, John of Gaunt.

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Adj. 1. gaunt - 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"

bony, cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted

lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare

gaunt

adjective

1. thin, lean, skinny, skeletal, wasted, drawn, spare, pinched, angular, bony, lanky, haggard, emaciated, scrawny, skin and bone, scraggy, cadaverous, rawboned Looking gaunt and tired, he denied there was anything to worry about.
thin fat, lush, plump, stout, chubby, obese, well-fed, corpulent

2. bleak, bare, harsh, forbidding, grim, stark, dismal, dreary, desolate, forlorn a large, gaunt, grey house
bleak inviting, luxurious, lush

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gaunt

adjective

1. Having little flesh or fat on the body:

angular, bony, fleshless, lank, lanky, lean, meager, rawboned, scrawny, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin, twiggy, weedy.

Idioms: all skin and bones, thin as a rail.

2. Pale and exhausted, as because of worry or sleeplessness:

careworn, drawn, haggard, hollow-eyed, wan, worn.

3. Physically haggard:

cadaverous, drawn, emaciated, shrunken, skeletal, wasted.

Idiom: skin and bones.

Translations

نَحيل، هَزيل

vyzáblý

mager

dünn hager

έρημος

émacié étique maigre maussade morne

magur, tálgaîur

magro scarno

liesasliesumassudžiūvęs

izdēdējisizdilisvājš

høy og knoklet utmagret

cılız sıska

憔悴的瘦削的

gaunt

[gɔːnt] ADJ

1. [face] (= drawn) → chupado ; (= unhealthy) → demacrado ; [person] → flaco y adusto

2. (fig) (= grim) [building] → sobrio, adusto

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

gaunt

[ˈgɔːnt] adj

[person] → décharné(e)

(= grim, desolate) → désolé(e)

gaunt

adj

(= haggard) → hager ; (= emaciated) → abgezehrt

(liter: = stark) building → trist ; tree → dürr und kahl ; landscape → öde

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

gaunt

[gɔːnt] adj → emaciato/a; (face) → smunto/a, scarno/a; (grim, desolate) → desolato/a

gaunt

(goːnt) adjective

(of a person) thin or thin-faced. a gaunt old woman. uitgeteerde نَحيل، هَزيل мършав esquálido vyzáblý hager mager αποστεωμένος flaco, chupado; demacrado kuivetu لاغر و نحیف riutunut émacié צנום दुबला mršav, upala lica sovány kurus magur, tálgaður scarno やつれた 수척해진 liesas, sudžiūvęs vājš; izdēdējis; izdilis kurus kering uitgemergeld utmagret, høy og knoklet mizerny ډنګر، بدوكرى، ګورملى، تريو esquálido sfrijit, slab худощавый vycivený mršav mršav mager, avtärd ผอมแห้ง sıska, cılız 瘦削的,憔悴的 худий دبلا، مریل gầy 瘦削的,憔悴的

ˈgauntness noun

uitgeteerdheid نَحالَه измършавялост magreza vyzáblost die Hagerkeit magerhed αδυναμία, αποστέωση flaqueza, escualidez kuivetus لاغری kolkkous émaciation רזון कृशता, मनहूसियत mršavost, upalost soványság kekurusan manneskja sem er horuð/tekin estrema magrezza やつれ 수척함 liesumas vājums; izdilums kegersangan magerheid utmagrethet wymizerowanie بدوكرى magreza slăbiciune худощавость vycivenosť mršavost mršavost avtärdhet ที่ผอมแห้ง sıskalık, cılızlık 瘦削 худина, худорба ہیئت کزائی tình trạng gầy 瘦削

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