gauntness
11bonyness — noun extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) • Syn: ↑boniness, ↑emaciation, ↑gauntness, ↑maceration • Derivationally related forms: ↑macerate (for: ↑maceration), ↑ …
12emaciation — noun extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) • Syn: ↑bonyness, ↑boniness, ↑gauntness, ↑maceration • Derivationally related forms: ↑macerate (for: ↑maceration), ↑ …
13maceration — noun 1. softening due to soaking or steeping • Derivationally related forms: ↑macerate • Hypernyms: ↑softening 2. extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) • Syn: ↑bonyness, ↑boniness, ↑ …
14gaunt — adjective Etymology: Middle English Date: 15th century 1. excessively thin and angular < a long gaunt face > 2. barren, desolate Synonyms: see lean • gauntly adverb • gauntness noun …
15gaunt — gauntly, adv. gauntness, n. /gawnt/, adj., gaunter, gauntest. 1. extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated. 2. bleak, desolate, or grim, as places or things: a gaunt, windswept landscape.… …
16lantern jaws — Synonyms and related words: boniness, fleshlessness, frailness, gauntness, gawkiness, haggardness, hatchet face, lankiness, lankness, leanness, meagerness, paperiness, peakedness, poorness, puniness, scrawniness, skin and bones, skinniness,… …
17underweight — Synonyms and related words: avoirdupois, bantamweight, beef, beefiness, boniness, bony, deadweight, fatness, featherweight, flat, flat chested, fleshless, fleshlessness, frailness, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gauntness, gawkiness, gawky, gravity,… …
18emaciation — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. gauntness, skinniness, thinness, boniness, haggardness, anorexia, malnutrition, starvation, undernourishment, atrophy, wasting, wasting away, withering, attenuation, consumption, marasmus, tabes …
19gaunt — [go:nt US go:nt] adj [Date: 1400 1500; Origin: Perhaps from a Scandinavian language] 1.) very thin and pale, especially because of illness or continued worry = ↑drawn ▪ the old man s gaunt face 2.) literary a building, mountain etc that is gaunt… …
20angularities — an·gu·lar·i·ty || ‚æŋgjÊŠ lærÉ™tɪ n. stiffness, lack of grace; boniness, gauntness; angular outlines or characteristics …
