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adjective, -er, -est.
1.
extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated.
2.
bleak, desolate, or grim, as places or things: a gaunt, windswept landscape.
Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English, probably < Old French gaunet, jaunet yellowish, derivative of gaune, jaune yellow < Latin galbinus greenish-yellow
1400–50; late Middle English, probably < Old French gaunet, jaunet yellowish, derivative of gaune, jaune yellow < Latin galbinus greenish-yellow
Related forms
gaunt·ly, adverb
gaunt·ness, noun
Antonyms
1. stout.
1. stout.
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Gaunt
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Example Sentences
- Pale and gaunt, he stood there, having endured three years of pretrial solitary confinement.
- All were slim and gaunt.
- Today, the landscape is still littered with the gaunt ventilation shafts of mines past, but not present.
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John of. John of Gaunt.
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gaunt
1440, from M.Fr. gant, of uncertain origin; perhaps from a Scand. source (cf. O.N. gand "a thin stick," also "a tall thin man").
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