Haggard

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Appearing worn and exhausted; gaunt.
  • adj. Wild or distraught in appearance.
  • adj. Wild and intractable. Used of a hawk in falconry.
  • n. An adult hawk captured for training.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Looking exhausted and unwell, in poor condition
  • adj. Wild or untamed
  • n. A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.
  • n. A hunting bird captured as an adult.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed.
  • adj. 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.
  • n. A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
  • n. A fierce, intractable creature.
  • n. A hag.
  • n. A stackyard.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Wild; intractable: said of a hawk or falcon.
  • Hence Untamed; lawless; wanton; profligate.
  • n. A hawk; specifically, in falconry, a wild hawk caught when in its adult plumage.
  • n. A hag; an ugly old woman; also, a wanton.
  • Wild-looking, as from prolonged suffering, terror, or want; careworn; gaunt; wildly staring.
  • Desperately wild; reckless: with reference to an act.
  • Synonyms Grim, Grisly, etc. (see ghastly); lean, worn, wasted (especially in countenance).
  • n. A stack-yard.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering
  • adj. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
  • n. British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)
  • Equivalent
    tired    lean    thin   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    author    writer   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    untamed    hollow-eyed    hag    stackyard    thing   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    laggard    staggered   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    gaunt    wan    forlorn    sallow    dejected    disheveled    unshaven    sorrowful    hungry    grim