|  gaunt 
 
 very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold (Freq. 9)
 - 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
 • Syn:
 bony, cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, pinched,
 skeletal, wasted
 • Similar to:
 thin, lean
 • Derivationally related forms:
 gauntness, boniness (for: bony), bonyness (for: bony)
 
 
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