Associations to the word «Gaunt»

Wiktionary

GAUNT, adjective. Lean, angular, and bony
GAUNT, adjective. Haggard, drawn, and emaciated
GAUNT, adjective. Bleak, barren, and desolate

Dictionary definition

GAUNT, adjective. Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration".

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke