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gaunt

  [gawnt]
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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 ME, prob. < OF gaunet, jaunet yellowish, deriv. of gaune, jaune yellow < L galbinus greenish-yellow

Related forms:
gauntly, adverb
gauntness, noun

Synonyms:
1. lean, spare, scrawny, lank, angular, rawboned. See thin.

Antonyms:
1. stout.

Gaunt

  [gawnt, gahnt]
–noun
John of. John of Gaunt.
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gaunt   (gônt)   
adj.   gaunt·er, gaunt·est

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

  2. Emaciated and haggard; drawn.

  3. Bleak and desolate; barren.


[Middle English, perhaps from Old French gant, possibly of Scandinavian origin.]
gaunt'ly adv., gaunt'ness n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

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").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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