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adj. Thin and bony; angular. See Synonyms at lean2.

adj. Emaciated and haggard; drawn.

adj. Bleak and desolate; barren.

adj. lean, angular, and bony

adj. haggard, drawn, and emaciated

adj. bleak, barren, and desolate

adj. Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.

Shrunken, as with fasting or suffering; emaciated; lean; thin; haggard.

Characterized by or producing emaciation; famishing; attenuating: as, gaunt poverty.

To make lean.

See gant.

n. The great crested grebe or cargoose, Podiceps cristatus.

adj. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

"Our young-old faces, chiseled and gaunt from the fever and the heat and the sleepless nights, now stare back at us, lost and damned strangers, frozen in yellowing snapshots packed away in cardboard boxes with our medals and our ribbons."

lean    thin   

lean    meager    repellent    thing    scrawny    scraggy    skinny   

aunt    conte    daunt    flaunt    haunt    jaunt    taunt    want   

lean    haggard    tall    bony    grim    skinny    bearded    thin    sallow    wiry