Synonyms for gaunt
gɔnt, gɑntgaunt

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1. gauntadjective

   Synonyms:
   scrawny, scraggy, skinny

2. gauntadjective

   lean, angular and bony

   Synonyms:
   skinny, scraggy, scrawny

3. gauntadjective

   haggard, drawn and emaciated

   Synonyms:
   scrawny, skinny, scraggy

4. gauntadjective

   bleak, barren and desolate

   Synonyms:
   scrawny, scraggy, skinny

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1. gaunt

   Synonyms:
   grim, savage, lean, lank, hungry, thin, spare, attenuated, emaciated

   Antonyms:
   docile, tractable, tame, sleek, well-fed

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1. bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wastedadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   pinched, haggard, atrophied, in straitened circumstances(p), boney, osteal, diminished, drawn, nasal, senseless, adenoidal, squandered, purposeless, penurious, hard up, otiose, penniless, osseous, superfluous, skeletal, cadaveric, cadaverous, careworn, wasted, raddled, bony, impecunious, worn, emaciated, pointless

   Antonyms:
   fat

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1. gauntadjective

   Synonyms:
   lean, thin, lank, emaciated, meagre, slender, spare, attenuated

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1. gauntadjective

   Synonyms:
   emaciated, pinched, attenuated, meager, lean

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1. Los Angeles:

   I saw a very gaunt, frail-looking child, who at that time to me looked like a 5-, 6- or 7-year-old boy.