extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated.
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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
Related forms
gaunt·ly, adverb
gaunt·ness, noun
Synonyms 1. lean, spare, scrawny, lank, angular, rawboned. See thin.
Antonyms 1. stout.
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