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

1. adjective. Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.
2. adjective. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

   "emaciated bony hands"

   "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"

   Synonyms: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted

Synonyms

bony, cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in gaunt:

tunga

Common word forms

gaunted, gaunter, gauntly, gauntest, gauntness

Words from these letters

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