haggard

¹hag·gard

adj \ˈha-gərd\

Definition of HAGGARD

1

of a hawk : not tamed

2

a : wild in appearance b : having a worn or emaciated appearance : gaunt <haggard faces looked up sadly from out of the straw — W. M. Thackeray>

— hag·gard·ly adverb

— hag·gard·ness noun

Examples of HAGGARD

1. She looked tired and haggard.
2. We were shocked by his haggard appearance.

Origin of HAGGARD

Middle French hagard

First Known Use: 1567

Related to HAGGARD

Synonyms: cadaverous, gaunt, emaciated, skeletal, wasted

Related Words: bony (also boney), lank, lanky, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, sinewy, skinny, spare, thin; starved, underfed, undernourished; famished, hungry, starving; shriveled (or shrivelled), withered, wizened

Near Antonyms: beefy, brawny, burly, fit, hale, healthy, hearty, husky; chubby, corpulent, fat, fleshy, heavyset, obese, overweight, plump, portly, pudgy, roly-poly, rotund, stocky, thickset, tubby; flabby, soft

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Rhymes with HAGGARD

blackguard, laggard