Gaunt

Definition: Gaunt

Gaunt

Adjective

1. Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration".

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Date "gaunt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Gaunt \Gaunt\, adjective. [Compare to Norw. gand thin pointed stick, tall and thin man, and Welsh gwan weak.]. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Gaunt

Distortion

Adjective: distorted; Verb: out of shape, irregular, asymmetric, unsymmetric, awry, wry, askew, crooked; not true, not straight; on one side, crump, deformed; harelipped; misshapen, misbegotten; misproportioned, ill proportioned; ill-made; grotesque, monstrous, crooked as a ram's horn; camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backed; bandy; bandy legged, bow legged; bow kneed, knock kneed; splay footed, club footed; round shouldered; snub nosed; curtailed of one's fair proportions; stumpy; (short); gaunt; (thin); bloated; scalene; simous; taliped, talipedic.

Narrowness Thinness

Emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent; lank, lanky; weedy, skinny; scrawny slinky; starved, starveling; herring gutted; worn to a shadow, lean as a rake; thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer; hatchet-faced; lantern-jawed.

Size

Lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking; overgrown; puffy; (swollen).

Ugliness

Misshapen, misproportioned; monstrous; gaunt; (thin); dumpy; (short); curtailed of its fair proportions; ill-made, ill-shaped, ill-proportioned; crooked; (distorted); hard featured, hard visaged; ill-favored, hard-favored, evil-favored; ill-looking; unprepossessing, unattractive, uninviting, unpleasing.

Crosswords: Gaunt

The Gaunt Stranger (1938)

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Books

• Griffith Gaunt; or, Jealousy (Complete Writings of Charles Reade (17 Volumes)) (reference)

• John of Gaunt (reference)

• Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the early English poet: including memoirs of his near friend and kinsman, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster: with sketches of the manners, opinions, arts, and literature of England in the fourteenth century (reference)

• Portugal, Spain and the African Atlantic, 1343-1490: Chivalry and Crusade from John of Gaunt to Henry the Navigator (Collected Studies Series, Cs496) (reference)

• Royalty for Commoners: The Complete Known Ancestry of John of Gaunt, Son of Edward Iii, King of England, and Queen Phillippa (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Figure 64. N.I.O. bottle designed by Francis E. Pierce, Dennis I. Gaunt, and Richard Dobson at the National Institute of Oceanography at Grand-Bretagne. This utilized a valve for closing but also inverted. The mounting for the therm ometer toppled over by the action of a spring. This bottle was used by the DISC OVERY II in the Gulf of Gascogne at 4700 meters. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Tilden's "Wolf at the door, gaunt and hungry" - Don't let him in / Th. Nast. Credit: Library of Congress.

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He was about fifty, his whiskery face gaunt, and his open eyes were vague and staring

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Beginning with "gaunt": gaunt-eyed, gaunt-face, gaunt-faced, gaunt-featured, gaunt-looking.

Afrikaans

skraal (lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, slender, slim, thin), maer (lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, slender, thin), dun (airy, lean, slender, thin), bedruk (dejected, depressed, dismal, miserable, print, sad). (various references)

Albanian

thatanik (scraggy), i tharë (blasted, bone dry, dried, dried up, dry, husky, jerked, jerky, parched, rough-dry, thirsty, withered), i pikëlluar (afflicted, distressed, distressful, dolorous, glum, heartsick, mournful, rueful, sad, sorrowful, sorry, woeful, woesome), hollë (lean, perceptively, slender, thin). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مضنى (enervated, exhausted, haggard, languishing, wasted, worn out), ‏هزيل (exiguous, haggard, lean, meager, meagre, miserable, peak, peaky, pitiful, scanty, scrawny, short, sickly, sketchy, skimp, skimpy, skinny, slender, slight, slim, spare, sparing, stingy, watery, wretched), ‏نحيل (bony, lean, meager, meagre, poor, raw boned, skinny, slender, slight, slim, small, svelte, thin). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сух (academic, academical, anhydrous, arid, aseptic, bald, brut, chaffy, chippy, dried, droughty, dry, fleshless, hacking, lean, liny, matter of fact, pedestrian, prosy, rainless, sapless, sec, spare, tearless, undamped, uninspired), мършав (fleshless, lank, meager, meagre, raw boned, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, skinny, thin, weedy), мрачен (black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, darksome, dejected, depressing, dim, dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dumpish, dusky, forbidding, gloomy, glum, grave, grey, grim, grisly, heavy, inhospitable, joyless, low-browed, lowering, melancholy, mirk, morbid, morose, murk, murky, obscure, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, sunless, tenebrous, thick, tristful), изтощен (all in, bushed, down and out, effete, emaciated, enervate, exhausted, jaded, limp, perished, played out, prostrate, run down, screwy, shagged out, shot, sick, spent, used up, weary, whacked), измъчен (afflicted, careworn, chivied, drawn, haggard, jaded, labored, laboured, pinched). (various references)

Catalan

prim (lean, slender, thin). (various references)

Chinese 

瘦削. (various references)

Czech

vyzáblý (emaciated, scraggy, spare, wasted), vyhublý (angular, bony, skinny), vychrtlý (emaciated, haggard, scrawny), ponurý (black, cheerless, dark, dismal, gloomy, grim, lurid, somber, sombre), přepadlý (haggard), bezútìšný (bleak, cheerless, comfortless, desolate, dreary, grim, miserable). (various references)

Danish

tynd (lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, slender, thin), mager (lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, slender, thin), bedrøvet (dismal, dreary, miserable, sad). (various references)

Dutch

hoekvormig, hoekig (angular). (various references)

Esperanto

timtremiga (ghastly, gruesome, horrible), senhoma, neloĝata, morna (desolate, dismal, dreary, gloomy, mournful), melankolia (bleak, dismal, dreary, melancholy), malgrasa (thin), malgaja (bleak, dismal, dreary, miserable, sad, somber), maldika (lean, slender, thin), malĝoja (dismal, miserable, sad), magra (lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, thin), dezerta (dreary), angula. (various references)

Faeroese

tyngjandi (desolate, dismal, dreary, gloomy, mournful), syrgin (dismal, dreary, miserable, sad), syrgiligur (bleak, dismal, dreary, miserable, sad, somber, sullen), rak (lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, thin), oyðin (dreary), klænur (graceful, lean, slender, slim, thin), fátækur (lean, meager, miserable, poor, skimpy, skinny, thin), dapur (desolate, dismal, dreary, gloomy, mournful, sad), óglaður (bleak, dismal, dreary, miserable, sad, somber, sullen). (various references)

Farsi 

نحیف (Frail, Haggard, Lean, Meager, Scant, Scrimp, Skimp, Skimpy, Slight, Spare), لاغرکردن (Atrophy, Attenuate, Thin), لاغر (Angular, Lean, Scraggy, Scrannel, Skinny, Slight, Slim, Slink, Spare, Thin, Toom, Wizen), ویران کردن (Demolish, Desolate, Destroy, Devastate, Harry, Havoc, Knockout, Ravage, Raze, Rubble, Ruinate, Throw), زننده ساختن , زننده (Acrid, Acrimonious, Beater, Garish, Glassy, Harsh, Hideous, Knocker, Loathsome, Lurid, Nasty, Nippy, Pitapat, Poignant, Pungent, Repellent, Repugnant, Repulsive, Sharp, Squalid, Striker, Tart, Vile), بی ثمر (Abortive, Barren, Unfruitful, Unprofitable), بدقیافه (Plain, Unfavorable). (various references)

French

sombre, morne. (various references)

Frisian

tin (lean, slender, thin), meager (lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, thin), fertrietlik (dismal, miserable, sad), ferdrietlik (bleak, dismal, dreary, miserable, sad, somber, sullen), drôf (bleak, dismal, dreary, miserable, sad, somber, sullen). (various references)

German

hager (lank, lean, rawboned, spare, thin), mager (emaciated, fatless, hungry, infertile, lank, lean, leanly, low fat, meager, meagre, poor, rawboned, scant, scanty, skimpy, skinny, slender, thin, weak). (various references)

Greek 

κάτισχνος (emaciated), ισχνόσ (lank, lean, meager, meagre, peaked, raw boned, scraggly, scrawny, skinny, slab-sided, slender, slim, spare, thin), λιπόσαρκοσ (scrawny). (various references)

Hawaiian

hollë (lean, slender, thin). (various references)

Hebrew 

קו�"ר (black, cheerless, dark, dour, dun, gloomy, gruff, morose, murky, saturnine, sepulchral, somber, sullen, tenebrous), כחוש (haggard, lean, macilent, peaky, scraggy, skinny, spare, thin). (various references)

Hungarian

sovány (bare-boned, extenuate, haggard, hungry, lean, meager, meagre, peaky, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, thin, underweight, wispy), kísérteties (eerie, ghastly, ghostly, ghoulish, lurid, macabre, spectral, spookish, spooky, withered), ösztövér (haggard, haggish, lean, skinny), sivár (bald, barren, bleak, desolate, dingy, drear, dreary, dusty, humdrum, meagre, penurious, sullen), komor (beetle brows, black, dark, darksome, dingy, dismal, funereal, gloomy, glum, louring, lowering, lugubrious, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, surly, to be down in the dumps). (various references)

Icelandic

mjór (lean, slender, slim, thin), dapur (bleak, dismal, dreary, miserable, sad, somber, sullen), þunnur (lean, slender, thin). (various references)

Indonesian

kurus (lean, meagre, skinny, thin, withered). (various references)

Irish

brónach (dismal, miserable). (various references)

Italian

magro (lame, lean, low fat, meager, meagre, narrow, poor, scant, scraggy, scrawny, skimmed, skimpy, skinny, slight, slim, thin, thinly), triste (black, bleak, blue, blue-deviled, blue-devilled, cheerless, dark, dejected, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dreary, dull, dusky, gloomy, heavy, hipped, lachrymose, miserable, moody, moped, sad, somber, sombre, sorrowful, sorry, sullen, unhappy, wan, woebegone), sottile (delicate, fine, keen, lean, sharp, shrewd, slender, slight, slim, small, subtile, subtle, thin), afflitto (bleak, destressed, dismal, dreary, miserable, mournful, pained, sad, somber, sorrowful, sorrowing, sorry, sullen, unhappy). (various references)

Malay

tipis (lean, slender, thin), kurus (lean, slender, thin). (various references)

Manx

shirgit (atrophied, contracted, decrepit, dried up, jerked, mummified, shrivelled, shrunken, wilted, withered, wizened), shang (emaciated, gracile, lank, lanky, lean, skinny, slender, slight, slim, sylph-like, thin, thin in build, willowy). (various references)

Norwegian

tynn (lean, slender, thin), sturen (bleak, dismal, dreary, miserable, sad, somber, sullen), ensom (dreary, immense, lonely, lonesome, remote). (various references)

Papiamen

tristu (bleak, dismal, dreary, miserable, sad, somber, sullen), flaku (lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, slender, slim, thin), flako (lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, slender, slim, thin), delegá (lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, slender, slim, thin). (various references)

Pig Latin

auntgay.(various references)

Polish

smutny (bleak, dismal, dreary, miserable, sad, somber, sullen). (various references)

Portuguese

sombrio (abstruse, adust, bleak, bowery, cheerless, cloudy, dark, darkling, darksome, dim, dingy, dismal, doleful, dreary, dun, dusk, dusky, ebon, funereal, fuscous, gloomily, gloomy, glum, grave, hard-headed, lowering, mirk, miserable, misty, morose, murk, murky, obscure, opaque, overcast, sable, sad, saturnine, shadowy, somber, sombre, stygian, umbrageous), magro (angular, bony, contracted, haggard, jejune, lank, meager, meagre, raw-boned, reduced, reedy, scraggy, scrawny, shrunken, skimpy, skinny, slender, thin), delgado (elongate, fine, lank, lean, reedy, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, tenuous, thin, wispy). (various references)

Romanian

supt (emaciated, hollow-cheeked, suck, sucking, thin, wasted), slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), sfrijit (emaciated, lean, scrawny, thin, wizened), pustiu (bare, blank, bleak, desert, deserted, desolate, empty, senseless, solitary, solitude, uninhabited, unoccupied, useless, waste, wild, wilderness), prãpãdit (destroyed, deteriorated, rascal, wretch, wretched), jigãrit (scrawny, skinny, weedy), costeliv (emaciated, meager, meagre, scraggy, skinny). (various references)

Russian 

тощий (lank, lean, scraggy, scrannel, skinny), вытянутый в длину, мрачный (black, bleak, cheerless, dark, darksome, dismal, dour, drear, dreary, funereal, gloomy, glum, grave, grey, grim, heavy, lugubrious, macabre, mirk, morose, mournful, murk, murky, obscure, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, tenebrous, woebegone), изможденный (haggard). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mršav (emaciated, lean, meager, meagre, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, skinny, thin), koščat (bony, osseous, raw boned, rawboned, scrawny). (various references)

Spanish

triste (bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, depressing, dismal, doleful, dolorous, drear, dreary, gloomy, glum, heavy, hipped, joyless, joylessly, mirthless, miserable, mournful, rueful, sad, somber, sorrowful, sorry, sullen, unhappy), flaco (foible, lean, meager, meagre, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, thin, weakly, weakness), fino (choice, dainty, delicate, discriminating, fine, genteel, gossamer, ladylike, lean, nice, polished, refined, semiprecious, sharp, sheer, shrewd, slender, suave, subtil, subtile, subtle, thin), afligido (afflicted, aggrieved, bereaved, bleak, desolate, dismal, distressed, dreary, miserable, mournful, pained, sad, somber, sorrowful, sorry, stricken, sullen, troubled). (various references)

Sranan

mangri (lean, meager, skimpy, skinny, thin), fini (lean, slender, thin). (various references)

Swahili

-a huzuni (dismal, miserable, sad), a huzuni (dismal, miserable, sad). (various references)

Swedish

spöklik (eerie, eery, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, lurid, spectral, spooky, uncanny), mager (hungry, ill-conditioned, lank, lean, meagre, parsimonious, peaked, raw boned, scanty, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, spare, thin). (various references)

Tagalog

payát (lean, slender, thin), malungkót (bleak, dismal, dreary, miserable, sad, somber, sullen). (various references)

Thai

แข็งทื่อ (stiffen), ผอมเกร็ง (gauntly). (various references)

Turkish

zayıf (atonic, bad mark, faint, fatless, feeble, feint, flaccid, flagging, frail, gracile, invertebrate, lean, low, nerveless, pithless, poor, puny, shaky, sinewless, slight, slim, small, spare, spent, thin, unmanly, weak, wishy washy, wishywashy), sıska (lank, puny, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, spare, weedy), sıkıcı (arid, bald, boring, burdensome, constringent, cut and dried, damnable, dead alive, disconcerting, ditch water, ditchwater, drab, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, gloomy, grave, grotty, humdrum, inanimate, insipid, irksome, oppressive, poky, ponderous, prose, prosy, slow, sluggish, soul-destroying, soulless, stodgy, stuffy, tedious, tiresome, trying, uncongenial, unexeciting, unpleasant, unreadable, unsensational, vapid, waste, watery, wearisome), köxelí, kıraç (barren, emaciated, infertile), acikli (affecting, dismal, dreary, miserable, moving, sad, touching, tragedy, tragic), çorak (arid, barren, desert, infertile, jejune, poor, waterless). (various references)

Ukrainian

худорлявий (bony, lank, slab-sided, slight), похмурий (adust, bleak, cheerless, dark, darksome, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dull, dusky, frowning, gash, ghastly, gloomy, glum, grave, gruff, hard-faced, inhospitable, lowering, macabre, mopish, mournful, murk, nightly, obscure, overcast, sable, saturnine, sepulchral, shadowy, stygian, sullen, surly, tenebrous), довгий (ample, great, long, side, tall). (various references)

Vietnamese 

gầy (lank, slight), thê lương (drear, dreary, mournful, stygian), hốc hác hoang vắng, dễ sợ (dread, dreadful, terrible), cằn cỗi có vẻ dữ tợn. (various references)

Yucatec

yah tu yool (dismal, dreary, miserable, sad), tuukul (dismal, dreary, miserable, sad, think), hay (even, flat, lean, level, slender, smooth, thin). (various references)

angularis, angulatus, angulosus, petilus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "gaunt": gaunter, gauntest, gauntlet, gauntleted, gauntleting, gauntlets, gauntly, gauntness, gauntnesses, gauntries, gauntry. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Gaunt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baunt, gaant, gahnt, Gahutu, Gainotti, gaint, Gakuin, gannt, ganntt, gant, gantt, gantz, Ganu, gaon, gasut, gaun, gaunr, gaunte, gauntl, gaunts, gauny, gaut, gauwt, Gazunti, genuit, Geuna, ghant, ghaunt, giunti, glunt, goint, gont, gount, gounts, Graunt, guant, guany, guent, guint, Gunt, Gunto, gwaun, raunt, waunt. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: aunt, gaun, gnat, guan, tang, tuna, tung.

-2 letters: ant, gan, gat, gnu, gun, gut, nag, nut, tag, tan, tau, tug, tun, uta.

-3 letters: ag, an, at, na, nu, ta, un, ut.

+1 letter: naught, nougat.

+2 letters: antibug, antigun, augment, autoing, dauting, gallnut, gaunter, gauntly, gauntry, gunboat, hangout, languet, mustang, mutagen, naughts, naughty, nougats, nutgall, outgain, outgnaw, outrang, outsang, tabuing, tauting, tunnage, unitage.

+3 letters: abutting, angulate, antidrug, argentum, argonaut, argument, attuning, auditing, augments, autogeny, curating, daunting, equating, faulting, figurant, fumigant, gallnuts, gauntest, gauntlet, guaranty, guardant, gunboats, gunmetal, hangouts, haunting, jaunting, languets, luxating, maturing, mustangs, mutagens, mutating, nugatory, nutating, nutgalls, nutgrass, outgains, outgnawn, outgnaws, outrange, pupating, quanting, quantong, runagate, saluting, sauteing, shantung, subagent, taunting, tegumina, tunnages, umangite, uncaught, unguenta, ungulate, unitages, untagged, untangle, untaught, updating, uprating, vaulting, vaunting.