gaunt Definition

gaunt
adj

1. Thin or thin-faced; lean, haggard.

Thesaurus: skeletal, emaciated, hollow-eyed, cadaverous, pinched, thin, skinny, wasted, angular, haggard, lean, spare; Antonym: hale, plump.
2. Said of a place: barren and desolate.

Thesaurus: grim, dismal, bleak, forlorn.

Derivative: gauntly
adverb

Derivative: gauntness
noun

Etymology: 15c.