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gaunt

/gawnt/US // gɔnt //UK // (ɡɔːnt) //

憔悴,憔悴的,憔悴的人,憔悴不堪

Related Words

angular角度,棱角分明,角度的,成角度的emaciated憔悴,憔悴的,憔悴不堪,癯瘦forlorn惆怅,惆怅的,怅然若失,怅惘anorexic厌食症患者,厌食症,厌食症者,厌食者thin薄,单薄,薄薄的,细grim严峻的,严酷的,严峻,严肃的bleak黯淡的,惨淡的,黯淡无光,惨淡bare光光的,赤裸裸的,光光,裸露的bony多骨的,骨质,多骨,骨质的cadaverous尸体的,尸身,尸体,死尸desolate荒凉,凄凉,荒凉的,荒芜dismal惨淡,凄惨的,惨淡的,凄惨dreary枯燥乏味,枯燥乏味的,枯燥无味的,枯燥无味forbidding禁止,强制,禁令,禁忌haggard憔悴,憔悴的,憔悴的人,憔悴不堪harsh严厉的,苛刻的,严酷的,严厉lean精简,瘦身,倾斜,瘦肉精meager微薄的,微薄,微不足道,微不足道的peaked峰值,峰值的,峰顶的,峰顶rawboned生锈的,生锈的人,生锈了的,生锈了

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.skinny
Synonyms
angular角度,棱角分明,角度的,成角度的anorexic厌食症患者,厌食症,厌食症者,厌食者bleak黯淡的,惨淡的,黯淡无光,惨淡emaciated憔悴,憔悴的,憔悴不堪,癯瘦forlorn惆怅,惆怅的,怅然若失,怅惘grim严峻的,严酷的,严峻,严肃的thin薄,单薄,薄薄的,细attenuated衰减的,衰减,减弱的,衰减型bare光光的,赤裸裸的,光光,裸露的bony多骨的,骨质,多骨,骨质的cadaverous尸体的,尸身,尸体,死尸desolate荒凉,凄凉,荒凉的,荒芜dismal惨淡,凄惨的,惨淡的,凄惨dreary枯燥乏味,枯燥乏味的,枯燥无味的,枯燥无味forbidding禁止,强制,禁令,禁忌haggard憔悴,憔悴的,憔悴的人,憔悴不堪harsh严厉的,苛刻的,严酷的,严厉lank岣嵝,小腿,长柄的lean精简,瘦身,倾斜,瘦肉精like a bag of bones如同一包骨头,像一袋骨头,如同一袋骨头,就像一袋骨头meager微薄的,微薄,微不足道,微不足道的peaked峰值,峰值的,峰顶的,峰顶peaky峰回路转,高峰期,峰峦叠嶂,峰顶pinched被夹住,被夹住的,被夹住了,掐死rawboned生锈的,生锈的人,生锈了的,生锈了scraggy蓬头垢面,蓬头垢面的,灌木丛生,蓬头垢面的人scrawny瘦小的,瘦弱的,骨瘦如柴,瘦小skeletal骨骼,骨骼结构,骨骼型,骨骼骼skeleton骨架,骨骼,骨架子,骨头skin and bones皮肤和骨骼,皮肤和骨头,皮包骨头,皮肉之躯spare备用的,剩余的,剩余,空闲时间wasted浪费了,浪费的,荒废了,浪费

Examples

  • 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.

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