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Definition
very thin and bony — often from hunger or as though having been worn to the boneMore 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.
- 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
- 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
- He too has lost flesh; like ours, his face has an expression strained, dreamy and gaunt.William Faulkner -- As I Lay Dying
- With a gaunt forefinger she stroked the lustrous strand above her mouth.Carl Hiassen -- Hoot
- 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
- 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
- His hair fell out, his face went gaunt as a skeleton.Mitch Albom -- Tuesdays with Morrie
- It was a very tall gaunt captain of artillery with a red scar along his jaw.Ernest Hemingway -- A Farewell to Arms
- Bud's gaunt face seemed to get blacker.Robert Lipsyte -- The Contender
- Their faces were gaunt and bony with dark nubs of hair.Mitch Albom -- The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck.Ernest Hemingway -- The Old Man and the Sea
- 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
gaunt = very thin
gaunt = very thin and bony
gaunt = very thin and long-suffering
gaunt = thin and bony
gaunt = very thin and bony
gaunt = very thin and bony
gaunt = very thin and bony
gaunt = very thin and bony
gaunt = very thin and bony
gaunt = very thin and bony
gaunt = very thin
gaunt = very thin and bony