gaunt adj : 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" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted]

English

Pronunciation

• /gɔːnt/
• SAMPA: /gO:nt/

• Rhymes: -ɔːnt

Adjective

1. lean, angular and bony
2. haggard, drawn and emaciated
3. bleak, barren and desolate

Translations

lean, angular and bony:

haggard, drawn and emaciated:

• French: émacié

bleak, barren and desolate:

Gaunt is a adjective that describes a living thing as being bony, thin and/or sickly, it may also be used to describe a barren deserted place, however gaunt may refer to:

People with the name Gaunt

• Dan Gaunt, a young Welsh darts prodigy tipped as the new Phil 'The Power' Taylor
• Jon Gaunt, British radio presenter and newspaper columnist, late 20th and early 21st century.
• John of Gaunt, 14th century English prince
• Maurice de Gaunt, founder of Beverston Castle
• Nathan Gaunt, an Australian singer-songwriter

Things

• Gaunt's formula, a mathematical formula dealing with associated Legendre polynomials
• Gaunt (band), a punk rock band from Ohio

Places

• Ghent, Belgium was formerly called Gaunt

Fictional characters

• Leland Gaunt, the antagonist in the Stephen King novel, Needful Things.
• The House of Gaunt, a wizard family in the Harry Potter book series
• Nightgaunt, a fictional race created by H. P. Lovecraft
• In Warhammer 40,000:
  • The Gaunt's Ghosts book series
    • Ibram Gaunt, an Imperial Guard officer and main character of the above series
    • Gaunt's Ghosts, the colloquial name for the Tanith First-and-Only regiment
  • Gaunt, term used to describe two Tyranid units; Termagaunts and Hormagaunts

see also emaciated

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