GAUNT meaning: Extremely thin, especially from illness

We found 31 dictionaries that define the word gaunt:

General (28 matching dictionaries)

gaunt: Merriam-Webster
Gaunt, gaunt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
gaunt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
gaunt: Collins English Dictionary
gaunt: Vocabulary.com
Gaunt, gaunt: Wordnik
gaunt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Gaunt, gaunt: Wiktionary
gaunt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
gaunt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
gaunt: Infoplease Dictionary
Gaunt, gaunt: Dictionary.com
gaunt: Online Etymology Dictionary
gaunt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Gaunt (band), Gaunt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Gaunt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
gaunt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
gaunt: Rhymezone
gaunt: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
gaunt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Gaunt: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
gaunt: FreeDictionary.org
gaunt: Mnemonic Dictionary
gaunt: TheFreeDictionary.com
gaunt: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
gaunt: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

gaunt: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

Gaunt (disambiguation), gaunt: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

Gaunt: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Angular, bony, and lean.
▸ adjective:  Unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness: drawn, emaciated, haggard.
▸ adjective:  (figurative)
▸ adjective:  Of a place or thing: bleak, desolate.
▸ adjective:  (rare) Greedy; also, hungry, ravenous.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete)
▸ adjective:  With a positive or neutral connotation: not overweight; lean, slender, slim.
▸ adjective:  (figurative) Of a sound: suggesting bleakness and desolation.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:

thin, emaciated, cadaverous, pinched, haggard, lean, wasted, bony, skeletal, raw-boned, more...

Opposite:

plump, chubby, corpulent, rotund, well-fed

Types:

skeletal, emaciated, haggard, gaunt-faced, gaunt-cheeked, more...

Phrases:

gaunt factor, William Gaunt, John of Gaunt, gaunt john of, duke of lancaster john of gaunt, more...

Adjectives:

old, little, tall, aged, few, great, same, young, own, poor, red

Colors:

ash gray, charcoal, slate gray, pewter, taupe, more...