Gaunt

Quick meaning: Gaunt is an adjective meaning Angular, bony, and lean.

Meaning

Angular, bony, and lean.

More Meanings

1. Unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness: drawn, emaciated, haggard.
2. Of a place or thing: bleak, desolate.
3. Greedy; also, hungry, ravenous.
4. With a positive or neutral connotation: not overweight; lean, slender, slim.
5. Of a sound: suggesting bleakness and desolation.

Example Sentences

Hanging from the beam, / Slowly swaying (such the law), / Gaunt the shadow on your green, / Shenandoah!

The leafless trees were surging in the night-wind; their gaunt branches were waving grimly over her head.

VVhen once he [a horse]'s broken, feed him full and high: / Indulge his Grovvth, and his gaunt ſides ſupply.

It will be the rawest, gauntest, ungainliest brute that ever scared the motor-bicycles on the Northampton Road.

Word Forms

• gaunter
• gauntest

Synonyms for gaunt

Depending on context, synonyms include scraggy, scrawny, skinny, gracile, lank, lean.

Antonyms for gaunt

Common opposites include big-boned, bulbous, corpulent, curvy, eurysome, obese.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include emaciated, haggard, thin, pinched, wasted, lean.

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