Dictionary Entry
gaunt
gaunt is a 5-letter English word with 2 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 9 · 2 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.
- 2adjective
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
"emaciated bony hands"
"a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"
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