Definition of gaunt Gaunt
/gɔˈnt/ - [gont] - Gaunt
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What does gaunt mean?
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| 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 not profitable or prosperous; "a lean year" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- gaunt (a.)
Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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gaunt
gänt, adj. thin: of a pinched appearance: causing emaciation.—adv. Gaunt′ly.—n. Gaunt′ness. [Skeat compares Norw. gand, pointed stick, and Sw. prov. gank, a lean horse.]
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