haggard

haggard has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• a.. Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk.
• a.. Having the expression of one wasted by want or suffering; hollow-eyed; having the features distorted or wasted, or anxious in appearance; as, haggard features, eyes.
• a.. A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
• a.. A fierce, intractable creature.
• a.. A hag.
• n.. A stackyard.
• n.. British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)
• a.. 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"
• a.. showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens