Antonyms 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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. gaunt

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

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

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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"

   Antonyms:
   fat

   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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. gauntadjective

   Synonyms:
   emaciated, pinched, attenuated, meager, lean

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. plump

   Submitted by anonymous on March 3, 2020  

How to use gaunt in a sentence?

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.

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