Haggard (Adjective)
Meaning 1
Showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "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.
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- Her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness after weeks of caring for her ailing mother.
- The farmer's haggard appearance was a testament to the long hours he had been putting in to harvest his crops.
- Years of poverty and hardship had left her with a haggard look, her eyes sunken and her skin pale.
- After a few months of non-stop traveling, the haggard look on his face was starting to show.
- The old professor's haggard face and worn eyes spoke volumes about the weight of his responsibilities and the burden of his years.
Synonyms
Meaning 2
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.