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haggard

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of haggard

suffering extreme weight loss as a result of hunger or disease

the rescued hiker appeared haggard and worn after a week in the woods

Synonyms of haggard

cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, skeletal, wasted

Words Related to haggard

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 of haggard

beefy, brawny, burly, fit, hale, healthy, hearty, husky

chubby, corpulent, fat, fleshy, heavyset, obese, overweight, plump, portly, pudgy, roly-poly, rotund, stocky, thickset, tubby

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