gaunt
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- Angular, bony, and lean.
- Unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness: drawn, emaciated, haggard.
- Of a place or thing: bleak, desolate.
- Greedy; also, hungry, ravenous.
- With a positive or neutral connotation: not overweight; lean, slender, slim.
- Of a sound: suggesting bleakness and desolation.
Proper noun
- A surname.
- Obsolete spelling of Ghent.
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