Englishgaunt
adjective
1 a gaunt, greying man with thick spectacles:
haggard, drawn, cadaverous, skeletal, emaciated, skin-and-bones, skinny, spindly, thin, over-thin, size-zero, spare, bony, angular, lank, lean, raw-boned, pinched, hollow-cheeked, hollow-eyed, lantern-jawed, scrawny, scraggy, shrivelled, wasted, withered, raddled;
as thin as a rake, as thin as a reed, without an ounce of fat;
informal looking like death warmed up, looking like a bag of bones;
dated spindle-shanked;
archaic starveling.
▷antonyms plump.
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