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gaunt 音标拼音: [g'ɔnt] a. 憔悴的,荒凉的,瘦削的 憔悴的,荒凉的,瘦削的 gaunt adj 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" [ synonym: { bony}, { cadaverous}, { emaciated}, { gaunt}, { haggard}, { pinched}, { skeletal}, { wasted}] Gaunt \ Gaunt\, a. [ Cf. Norw. gand a thin pointed stick, a tall and thin man, and W. gwan weak.] Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim. " The gaunt mastiff." -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] A mysterious but visible pestilence, striding gaunt and fleshless across our land. -- Nichols. [ 1913 Webster] 89 Moby Thesaurus words for " gaunt": acarpous, angular, arid, bare, barren, bleak, bony, cadaverous, celibate, childless, desert, deserted, desolate, dismal, drained, dreary, dried- up, dry, emaciated, exhausted, fallow, flat, flat- chested, fleshless, forbidding, forlorn, fruitless, gangling, gangly, gawky, gelded, grim, haggard, harsh, hostile, impotent, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, inimical, issueless, jejune, lank, lanky, leached, lean, lean- fleshed, lean- looking, meager, menopausal, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, pinched, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, sine prole, skeletal, skinny, spare, spidery, spindling, spindly, stark, sterile, stern, sucked dry, teemless, thin, thin- bellied, thin- fleshed, twiggy, uncultivated, undersized, underweight, unfertile, unfriendly, unfruitful, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unsown, untilled, virgin, waste, wasted, without issue
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