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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;
- Example: "emaciated bony hands"
- Example: "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"
- Example: "eyes were haggard and cavernous"
- Example: "small pinched faces"
- Example: "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"
[syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
   [1913 Webster]

         A mysterious but visible pestilence, striding gaunt and
         fleshless across our land.               --Nichols.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]