haggard

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

adjective

1. showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering (Freq. 2)
- 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
• Syn:
careworn, drawn, raddled, worn
• Similar to:
tired
2. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold (Freq. 1)
- 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, gaunt, pinched,
skeletal, wasted
• Similar to:
thin, lean
• Derivationally related forms:
gauntness (for: gaunt), boniness (for: bony), bonyness (for: bony)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, pinched, skeletal, wasted, careworn, drawn, raddled, worn, Haggard, Rider Haggard, Sir Henry Rider Haggard