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Definition

very thin and bony — often from hunger or as though having been worn to the bone

More rarely, gaunt can reference a place such as a landscape or a home, in which case it indicates that the place is bleak or barren.

She looked gaunt from the chemotherapy.

gaunt = very thin

Don Quixote looked gaunt and tired.

gaunt = very thin

I don't think I'm too thin at all. I understand when people say, 'Well your face gets gaunt,' but to get your bottom half to be the right size, your face might have to be a little gaunt. You choose your battles.
Courteney Cox

gaunt = very thin and bony

a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys
My knees give way from fasting; my body is thin and gaunt.
Psalm 109:24 (NIV)
And the cows that were ugly and gaunt ate up the seven sleek, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.
Genesis 41:4 (NIV)
Harry looked over at the Slytherin table and saw a horrible ghost sitting there, with blank staring eyes, a gaunt face, and robes stained with silver blood.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

gaunt = very thin and long-suffering

He too has lost flesh; like ours, his face has an expression strained, dreamy and gaunt.
William Faulkner -- As I Lay Dying

gaunt = thin and bony

With a gaunt forefinger she stroked the lustrous strand above her mouth.
Carl Hiassen -- Hoot

gaunt = very thin and bony

Peter had a glimpse of a horrible, grey, gaunt creature, half man and half wolf, in the very act of leaping upon a boy about his own age,
C.S. Lewis -- Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia

gaunt = very thin and bony

The figure was tall and gaunt, and shrouded from head to foot in the habiliments of the grave.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Masque of the Red Death

gaunt = very thin and bony

His hair fell out, his face went gaunt as a skeleton.
Mitch Albom -- Tuesdays with Morrie

gaunt = very thin and bony

It was a very tall gaunt captain of artillery with a red scar along his jaw.
Ernest Hemingway -- A Farewell to Arms

gaunt = very thin and bony

Bud's gaunt face seemed to get blacker.
Robert Lipsyte -- The Contender

gaunt = very thin and bony

Their faces were gaunt and bony with dark nubs of hair.
Mitch Albom -- The Five People You Meet in Heaven

gaunt = very thin

The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck.
Ernest Hemingway -- The Old Man and the Sea

gaunt = very thin and bony

He was about fifty, his whiskery face gaunt, and his open eyes were vague and staring.
John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
She hated her gaunt appearance in the mirror and commented more than once that she looked as if she had aged fifteen years.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Choice
His face was gaunt, scraped and bloody, his hair dusted with cobwebs, but when he locked eyes with her, she thought he had never looked more handsome.
Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
The darkness up here is not as dense, and I can see his gaunt face dusted in concrete, bleeding from fresh scratches.
Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave

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