gaunt

gaunt
    adj 1: 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" [syn: {bony},
           {cadaverous}, {emaciated}, {gaunt}, {haggard}, {pinched},
           {skeletal}, {wasted}]
    

Gaunt \Gaunt\, a. [Cf. Norw. gand a thin pointed stick, a tall
   and thin man, and W. gwan weak.]
   Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager;
   pinched and grim. "The gaunt mastiff." --Pope.
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         A mysterious but visible pestilence, striding gaunt and
         fleshless across our land.               --Nichols.
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89 Moby Thesaurus words for "gaunt":
      acarpous, angular, arid, bare, barren, bleak, bony, cadaverous,
      celibate, childless, desert, deserted, desolate, dismal, drained,
      dreary, dried-up, dry, emaciated, exhausted, fallow, flat,
      flat-chested, fleshless, forbidding, forlorn, fruitless, gangling,
      gangly, gawky, gelded, grim, haggard, harsh, hostile, impotent,
      ineffectual, infecund, infertile, inimical, issueless, jejune,
      lank, lanky, leached, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, meager,
      menopausal, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific,
      pinched, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, sine prole, skeletal, skinny,
      spare, spidery, spindling, spindly, stark, sterile, stern,
      sucked dry, teemless, thin, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, twiggy,
      uncultivated, undersized, underweight, unfertile, unfriendly,
      unfruitful, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unsown, untilled,
      virgin, waste, wasted, without issue