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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 lean2.
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
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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" |
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gaunt
adjective
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gaunt
adjective1. 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:
3. Physically haggard:
Idiom: skin and bones.
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نَحيل، هَزيل
vyzáblý
mager
magur, tálgaîur
liesasliesumassudžiūvęs
izdēdējisizdilisvājš
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[gɔːnt] ADJCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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[gɔːnt] adj → emaciato/a; (face) → smunto/a, scarno/a; (grim, desolate) → desolato/aCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
gaunt
(goːnt) adjective (of a person) thin or thin-faced. a gaunt old woman.
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