Antonyms for haggard
ˈhæg ərdhag·gard

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

1. haggard

   Antonyms:
   sleek, smug, chubby, plump

   Synonyms:
   wild, wasted, worn, attenuated, wrinkled, ghastly, holloweyed, lean, gaunt

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1. Haggard, Rider Haggard, Sir Henry Rider Haggardadjective

   British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)

   Antonyms:
   fat, rested

2. careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled, wornadjective

   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

   Antonyms:
   rested, fat

   Synonyms:
   worn, wasted, bony, careworn, skeletal, raddled, emaciated, worn-out, cadaverous, drawn, gaunt, pinched

3. 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:
   rested, fat

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

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1. haggardadjective

   Synonyms:
   gaunt, emaciated, hollow-eyed

How to use haggard in a sentence?

1. Merle Haggard:

   I've never been a guy that can do what Merle Haggard told me, it's always been my nature to fight the system.

2. Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards:

   I can't remember when I haven't listened to Merle Haggard, some of the best songs and best delivery you can get.

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