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adjective
- 1. (of a person) lean and haggard, especially because of suffering, hunger, or age: "a tall, gaunt woman in black" Similar Opposite
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GAUNT definition: 1. very thin, especially because of sickness or hunger: 2. empty and not attractive: 3. very…. Learn more.
The meaning of GAUNT is excessively thin and angular. How to use gaunt in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Gaunt.
Definition of gaunt adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
GAUNT meaning: 1. very thin, especially because of sickness or hunger: 2. empty and not attractive: 3. very…. Learn more.
It means you look skinny like you're sick, not skinny like you have a personal nutritionist slapping your hand when you reach for a bonbon. A good way to remember gaunt is that it rhymes with haunt, and gaunt people look pale, drawn, and wasted — like you'd expect a haunting ghost to appear.
extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated. 2. bleak, desolate, or grim, as places or things. a gaunt, windswept landscape. SYNONYMS 1. lean, spare, scrawny, lank, angular, rawboned. See thin. ANTONYMS 1. stout.
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.
Meaning & use. 1. Expand. 2. Abnormally lean, as from hunger; haggard-looking; tall… 3. 1. c1440–1736. † In favourable or neutral sense: Slim, slender, not fat. Obsolete. c1440. Gawnt or lene, maciolentus [sic]. Gawnte or swonge (K. or slendyr), gracilis. Promptorium Parvulorum 189/1. 1546.
Definitions of 'gaunt' 1. If someone looks gaunt, they look very thin, usually because they have been very ill or worried. [...] 2. If you describe a building as gaunt, you mean it is very plain and unattractive. [literary] [...] More. Pronunciations of 'gaunt' American English: gɔnt British English: gɔːnt. More. Synonyms of 'gaunt'
Gaunt definition: extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated. . See examples of GAUNT used in a sentence.
