Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk.
- 2adjective
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.
- 3adjective
A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
- 4adjective
A fierce, intractable creature.
- 5adjective
A hag.
- 6noun
A stackyard.
- 7noun
British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)
- 8adjective
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
"emaciated bony hands"
"a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"
- 9adjective
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"
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