Haggard

Definition: Haggard

Haggard

Adjective

1. Showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens.

2. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

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

Dream Interpretation

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Synonyms: Haggard

Excitation

Lost, eperdu, tempest-tossed; haggard; ready to sink.

Fatigue

Adjective: fatigued, tired; Verb: weary; drowsy; drooping; Verb: haggard; toilworn, wayworn:, footsore, surbated, weather-beaten; faint; done up, used up, knocked up; bushed ; exhausted, prostrate, spent; overtired, overspent, overfatigued; unrefreshed, unrestored.

Insanity

Corybantic, dithyrambic; rabid, giddy, vertiginous, wild; haggard, mazed; flighty; distracted, distraught; depressed; agitated, hyped up; bewildered; (uncertain).

Ugliness

Squalid, haggard; grim, grim faced, grim visaged; grisly, ghastly; ghost like, death like; cadaverous, grewsome, gruesome.

Crosswords: Haggard

Repulsed by her haggard appearance the prince sneered at the gift and turned the old woman away (Beauty and the Beast; writing credit: Roger Allers; Kelly Asbury)

Now they sound tired but they don't sound Haggard (Long Time Gone; performing artist: Dixie Chicks)

Rene Haggard Journeys On (1915)

Haggard (2002)

Are The Good Times Really Over (performing artist: Merle Haggard)

If We Make It Through December (performing artist: Merle Haggard)

Mama Tried (performing artist: Merle Haggard)

Okie From Muskogee (performing artist: Merle Haggard)

Pancho & Lefty (performing artist: Merle Haggard / Willie Nelson)

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Books

• Eric Brighteyes: The Works of H. Rider Haggard (reference)

• Rereading the Imperial Romance: British Imperialism and South African Resistance in Haggard, Schreiner, and Plaatje (Oxford English Monographs) (reference)

• Rudyard Kipling and Sir Henry Rider Haggard on Screen, Stage, Radio and Television (reference)

• The Best of Merle Haggard (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Merle Haggard - In Concert (reference)

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Music

• Country Classics: Merle Haggard (reference)

• Dac Presents Merle Haggard (reference)

• The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology (reference)

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Portraits of Great American Surgeons: Past Presidents of the American College of Surgeons : William David Haggard (1872-1940) / From the painting by Charles Sneed Williams. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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I do not see or feel that same confidence or even the same hopes in the haggard world at the present time. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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When, at high Noon, the blazing sky Scorched in his head each haggard eye, Then keenest rose his weary cry.

In one corner, on a ragged old scrap of carpet, was a haggard woman, and a number of children were huddled together

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Expressions using "haggard": haggard falcon ♦ Rider Haggard ♦ Sir Henry Rider Haggard. Additional references.

Beginning with "haggard": Haggard-jelkes, haggard-looking.

Albanian

i mbaruar (arrant, done, finished, out of hand, past, perfect, proper), i leqendisur, i drobitur, i dërrmuar (broken, careworn, dispirited, frazzle, woebegone, woeful, woesome). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منهك (dog tired, dogsbody, exhausted, exhausting, grueling, overfatigued, overstrained, overtaxed, overtired, overworked, run down, tired, tiring, toilsome, toil-worn, weary, worn out), ‏مضنى (enervated, exhausted, gaunt, languishing, wasted, worn out), ‏هزيل (exiguous, gaunt, lean, meager, meagre, miserable, peak, peaky, pitiful, scanty, scrawny, short, sickly, sketchy, skimp, skimpy, skinny, slender, slight, slim, spare, sparing, stingy, watery, wretched), ‏ضعيف (atonic, cold, crazy, deficient, delicate, dim, emaciated, enervate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flagging, fragile, frail, helpless, impotent, inaudible, infirm, invertebrate, lame, languid, languorous, lank, lean, limp, little, low, lower, nerveless, pale, powered, powerless, puny, rickety, run down, scant, scrawny, slender, slight, slim, small, soft, softy, streaked, supine, tenuous, thin, thready, toothless, unsubstantial, wan, weak, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy), ‏صقر قريش, ‏شاحب (bloodless, colorless, colourless, greyish, insular, leaden, livid, mealy, pale, palish, pallid, paly, pasty faced, peaky, sallow, sick, sickly, wan). (various references)

Bulgarian 

посърнал (careworn, faded), измършавял (emaciated, pinched, pinch-faced), измъчен (afflicted, careworn, chivied, drawn, gaunt, jaded, labored, laboured, pinched), изпит (drawn, exam, examination, pinched, test, wan). (various references)

Chinese 

枯槁, �" , 悴 (distressed, downcast, sad). (various references)

Czech

ztrhaný, vychrtlý (emaciated, gaunt, scrawny), přepadlý (gaunt). (various references)

Farsi 

نحیف (Frail, Gaunt, Lean, Meager, Scant, Scrimp, Skimp, Skimpy, Slight, Spare), رام نشده (Savage, Unbacked, Undaunted), دارای چشمان فرورفته . (various references)

French

hâve, ravagé, maigre, blême, abattu, émacié, égaré (haunted). (various references)

German

verstört (distracted, distraught, disturbed, haggardly, jumbled up), ausgezehrt (cadaverous), abgezehrt (emaciated), abgehärmt (careworn, peaked, peaky). (various references)

Greek 

κάτισχνοσ, καταβεβλημένοσ (run down), καταβεβλημένος (run down), ωχρόσ (ghastly, pale, pallid, sallow, wan, yellowish), ελεεινόσ (abject, beggarly, deplorable, disgraceful, forlorn, miserable, piteous, pitiable, scrub, scrubby, seedy, sorry, wretched). (various references)

Hebrew 

מבעית (frightful, gruesome, macabre), שחוף (consumptive, tuberculous), כחוש (gaunt, lean, macilent, peaky, scraggy, skinny, spare, thin), רע מרא�". (various references)

Hungarian

szikár (lean, skinny, spare), vad külsejű, sovány (bare-boned, extenuate, gaunt, hungry, lean, meager, meagre, peaky, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, thin, underweight, wispy), elkínzott (anguished, drawn, drawn out), elgyötört, ösztövér (gaunt, haggish, lean, skinny). (various references)

Italian

sparuto (gaunt, puny, small, thin), smunto (meager, meagre, wan), selvaggio (brutal, ferocious, frantically, primitive, rampant, savage, tigerish, tomboyish, wild), emaciato (emaciated), consunto (tired). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

面窶れ (care-worn). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おもやつれ (care-worn). (various references)

Manx

treih (abject, deplorable, doughy, drawn, feeble, forlorn, fragile, miserable, pale, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, regrettable, rueful, sallow, seedy, sickly, wan, wretched, wretched of thing). (various references)

Norwegian

uttært, mager (lank, lean). (various references)

Pig Latin

aggardhay.(various references)

Portuguese

magro (angular, bony, contracted, gaunt, jejune, lank, lean, meager, meagre, raw-boned, reduced, reedy, scraggy, scrawny, shrunken, skimpy, skinny, slender, thin), fatigado (done, faint, jaded, outworn, strained, tired, weary, worn-out), encovado, desvairado (frantic), desfigurado, alterado (unsettled), abatido (broken-hearted, crestfallen, dead-alive, dejected, depressed, despondent, dismal, down, downcast, down-hearted, dumpish, hagridden, heavy-laden, joyless, languishing, low-spirited, melancholy, moped, prostrate, reduced, wan, washed-out, woebegone). (various references)

Romanian

tras la faţã (peaky), speriat (afeard, afraid, fearful), sãlbatic (barbarous, bloodthirsty, brutal, brutish, cruel, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, fiery, harsh, impetuous, inhuman, inhumanly, rugged, sanguinary, savage, shaggy, tameless, truculent, uncivilized, uncouth, uncouthly, uncultivated, uncultured, ungovernable, unruly, unsociable, violent, wild, wild man), rãtãcit (afield, stray, wandering, wild), palid (ashen, ashy, colorless, colourless, doughy, etiolated, female, Gray, green, grey, lightish, lunar, lurid, pale, pallid, paly, sickly, wan, washed out, white), descompus (decomposed, distorted), cu privirile rãtãcite, buimãcit. (various references)

Russian 

изможденный (gaunt). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

unezveren (bewildered). (various references)

Spanish

ojeroso. (various references)

Swedish

utmärglad (emaciated, emiciated, lank, wasted), tärd (careworn, wasted, worn). (various references)

Thai

ไม่เชื่อง (feral), ซูบผอม. (various references)

Turkish

yabani (bestial, brutal, brute, brutish, fair, feral, savage, untamed, wild), vahşi şahin (haggard falcon), vahşi (atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, brutal, brute, churlish, feral, ferocious, heathen, heathenish, rude, savage, tigerish, truculent, uncivilized, wild, wolfish), evcilleşmemiş şahin, bitkin (all in, all out, beat, broken down, bushed, dead beat, dog tired, drained, drawn, drawn out, drooping, effete, exhausted, faint, forworn, jaded, knackered, languorous, overdone, played out, pooped, pooped out, prostrate, run down, spent, stale, tired, tired to death, toilworn, tuckered out, used up, washed out, weakly, weary, whacked, wonky, worn, worn out, worn to a frazzle, wretched, zonked), bezgin (disgusted, exhausted, lackadaisical, tired of life, weary of life). (various references)

Ukrainian

тік (barn-floor), змучений (all in, chivied, exhausted, outspent, overworn). (various references)

Vietnamese 

hốc hác, mất ngủ. (various references)

faulcon hagard. (various references)

hag. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "haggard": haggardly, haggardness, haggardnesses, haggards. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Haggard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aagaard, Agard, ahaggar, Chaggar, Chignard, Ghaghara, hagar, hagara, hagard, hagbard, Hagerty, Haggar, haggared, haggarf, Haggart, Haggarty, haggerd, Helgaud, Higrade, hodgart, hoggars, hoggarts, Hougaard, Huggard, Iaggard, Jaggards. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: aargh, dagga.

-3 letters: agar, agha, drag, gaga, grad, haar, hard, raga.

-4 letters: aah, aga, aha, dag, dah, gad, gag, gar, had, hag, rad, rag, rah.

-5 letters: aa, ad, ag, ah, ar, ha.

+1 letter: haggards.

+2 letters: haggardly.

+4 letters: haggardness.

+5 letters: hardinggrass.