haggard

haggard is a 7-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 14 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk.
2. adjective. 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.
3. adjective. A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
4. adjective. A fierce, intractable creature.
5. adjective. A hag.
6. noun. A stackyard.
7. noun. British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)
8. 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, gaunt, pinched, skeletal, wasted

9. adjective. showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering- Charles Dickens

   "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"

   "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"

   Synonyms: careworn, drawn, raddled, worn

Synonyms

bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, pinched, skeletal, wasted, careworn, drawn, raddled, worn

Common word forms

haggards, haggardly, haggardness

Words from these letters

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