gaunt

/gawnt/US // gɔnt //UK // (ɡɔːnt) //

憔悴,憔悴的,憔悴的人,憔悴不堪

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
gaunt·er, gaunt·est.
- : extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated.
- : bleak, desolate, or grim, as places or things: a gaunt, windswept landscape.

adj.skinny

Synonyms

You start losing all this weight and looking gaunt and frail.
One day I was stunned to see that a particular favorite was a gaunt chain-smoker.
In order to play the gaunt Woodroof, McConaughey went from 182 pounds to 135, subsisting on what he calls “a controlled diet.”
Hashi came in first, wearing a white kufi and looking gaunt, reportedly from a hunger strike.
In the small living room where we last met, he seemed more gaunt than wiry, his ear bandaged after a biopsy.
Charred beams and blackened walls showed stark and gaunt in the glow of a smoldering mass of wreckage.
The Seneschal stood with blanched face and gaping mouth, his fire all turned to ashes before the passion of this gaunt man.
A gaunt, hard-featured domestic completed this interesting family, and she was uncommon too.
The little name sounded so incongruous; it did not suit the big gaunt woman who had almost a touch of the monstrous in her.
He was tall and gaunt, with an unnaturally white face and a mass of hair almost as white in color, though not from age.

/gawnt/US // gɔnt //UK // (ɡɔːnt) //

憔悴,憔悴的,憔悴的人,憔悴不堪

adj.形容词 adjective

1
gaunt·er, gaunt·est.
- : extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated.
- : bleak, desolate, or grim, as places or things: a gaunt, windswept landscape.

adj.skinny

Synonyms

You start losing all this weight and looking gaunt and frail.
One day I was stunned to see that a particular favorite was a gaunt chain-smoker.
In order to play the gaunt Woodroof, McConaughey went from 182 pounds to 135, subsisting on what he calls “a controlled diet.”
Hashi came in first, wearing a white kufi and looking gaunt, reportedly from a hunger strike.
In the small living room where we last met, he seemed more gaunt than wiry, his ear bandaged after a biopsy.
Charred beams and blackened walls showed stark and gaunt in the glow of a smoldering mass of wreckage.
The Seneschal stood with blanched face and gaping mouth, his fire all turned to ashes before the passion of this gaunt man.
A gaunt, hard-featured domestic completed this interesting family, and she was uncommon too.
The little name sounded so incongruous; it did not suit the big gaunt woman who had almost a touch of the monstrous in her.
He was tall and gaunt, with an unnaturally white face and a mass of hair almost as white in color, though not from age.