Gaunt (Adjective)
Meaning
Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "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".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The gaunt figure of the old man seemed to fade away into the shadows as he walked.
- Her gaunt face was a testament to the struggles she had faced in her journey.
- After months in the refugee camp, the children's gaunt bodies and sunken eyes told a story of desperation.
- The gaunt landscape stretched out before them, a desolate expanse of barren trees and dry earth.
- Years of poverty had taken their toll on his once robust body, now a gaunt and fragile shell of its former self.