haggard
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
haggard
adj 1: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or
suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her
mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from
sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face";
"shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young
face"- Charles Dickens [syn: {careworn}, {drawn},
{haggard}, {raddled}, {worn}]
2: 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}]
n 1: British writer noted for romantic adventure novels
(1856-1925) [syn: {Haggard}, {Rider Haggard}, {Sir Henry
Rider Haggard}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Haggard \Hag"gard\ (h[a^]g"g[~e]rd), a. [F. hagard; of German
origin, and prop. meaning, of the hegde or woods, wild,
untamed. See {Hedge}, 1st {Haw}, and {-ard}.]
1. Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty;
untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk. [Obs.] --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
2. [For hagged, fr. hag a witch, influenced by haggard wild.]
Having the expression of one wasted by want or suffering;
hollow-eyed; having the features distorted or wasted by
pain; wild and wasted, or anxious in appearance; as,
haggard features, eyes.
[1913 Webster]
Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
181 Moby Thesaurus words for "haggard":
abandoned, achromatic, achromic, amok, anemic, angular, ashen,
ashy, attenuated, bellowing, berserk, bigoted, bled white,
bloodless, blue, cadaverous, careworn, carried away, chloranemic,
colorless, corpselike, dead, deadly, deadly pale, deathlike,
deathly, deathly pale, delirious, demoniac, dim, dimmed, dingy,
discolored, distracted, drawn, dull, ecstatic, eerie, emacerated,
emaciate, emaciated, enraptured, etiolated, exhausted,
exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, extravagant, extreme,
extremist, faded, fagged, faint, fallow, fanatic, fatigued, feral,
ferocious, fierce, flat, frantic, frenzied, fulminating, furious,
gaunt, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, gray, grisly, gruesome,
hog-wild, hollow-eyed, howling, hueless, hypochromic, hysterical,
in a transport, in hysterics, inordinate, intoxicated, irrational,
jejune, lackluster, lank, leaden, lean, livid, lurid, lusterless,
macabre, mad, madding, maniac, marantic, marasmic, mat, mealy,
mortuary, muddy, neutral, orgasmic, orgiastic, overenthusiastic,
overreligious, overzealous, pale, pale as death, pale-faced,
pallid, pasty, peaked, peaky, perfervid, pinched, played out, poor,
possessed, puny, rabid, raging, ramping, ranting, ravaged, raving,
ravished, roaring, run-down, running mad, sallow, scraggy, scrawny,
shriveled, shrunken, sickly, skeletal, skinny, spare, spent,
starved, starveling, storming, tabetic, tabid, tallow-faced, tired,
tired-eyed, tired-faced, tired-looking, toneless, transported,
ultrazealous, uncanny, uncolored, uncontrollable, underfed,
undernourished, unearthly, unreasonable, violent, wan, washed-out,
wasted, waxen, weak, wearied, weary, weary-looking, weazeny, weird,
whey-faced, white, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking, withered,
wizened, worn, worn-down, wraithlike, zealotic
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