单词	gauntness
释义	gauntgaunt /ɡɔːnt $ ɡɒːnt/ adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINgaunt Origin: 1400-1500 Perhaps from a Scandinavian language Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES He has lost his hair and some teeth and appeared quite gaunt. The District Attorney at forty-four had the gaunt look of a man twenty years older. When I visited him in hospital Albert looked terrible -- his face was gaunt and his hair had turned grey. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS He could see his reflection, turned gaunt and ashen, in the fragment of mirror propped against the lavatory window. It looked gaunt and inhospitable, he realised. It was a youthful but gaunt face from which a yes meant no. It was hard to say which were skinnier and more gaunt, the men or the animals. Ruth looked away in panic then braved herself to look back but the gaunt, pinched face had gone. The gaunt faces beneath closely cropped heads and the young faces on emaciated bodies had began to assume form and substance. The grittiness of the coal smoke coming down on those gaunt January afternoons was still in her nostrils. Thesaurus THESAURUSperson► thin having little fat on your body: · a tall, thin man ► slim thin in an attractive way: · her slim figure· a slim woman in her fifties· Magazines are always full of advice about how to stay slim. ► slender written thin in an attractive and graceful way – used especially about parts of the body, and used especially about women: · her long, slender legs· She is slender, with very fair hair. ► lean thin and looking healthy and fit: · his lean body· He was lean and looked like a runner. ► skinny very thin in a way that is not attractive: · a skinny teenager· Your arms are so skinny! ► slight written thin and delicate: · a small, slight girl with big eyes ► scrawny very thin, small, and weak-looking: · a scrawny kid in blue jeans ► underweight below the usual weight for someone of your height, and therefore too thin: · He had no appetite and remained underweight. ► gaunt written very thin and pale, especially because of illness or continued worry: · He looked gaunt and had not shaved for days. ► emaciated written extremely thin and weak, because you are ill or not getting enough to eat: · The tents were filled with emaciated refugees. ► skeletal written used about someone who is so thin that you can see the shape of their bones: · The soldiers were shocked by the skeletal figures of the camp’s prisoners. ► anorexic used about someone who is extremely thin because they have a mental illness that makes them stop eating: · Her daughter is anorexic.· anorexic teenagers Longman Language Activatorhaving a thin face because you are very worried, tired etc► drawn thin and unhappy-looking because of tiredness, illness, or worry: · Her face was pale and drawn, and she seemed to have been crying.· When Jack arrived he sat down slowly, his face drawn, with beads of sweat on his forehead.look drawn (=have a drawn expression on your face): · The doctor came out, looking drawn and exhausted. ► gaunt extremely thin and pale, especially because you have been very ill or worried or because you have been working too hard: · When I visited him in hospital Albert looked terrible -- his face was gaunt and his hair had turned grey.· The District Attorney at forty-four had the gaunt look of a man twenty years older. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► face · She was sitting up in bed, her glasses already adorning her gaunt face and her hair curled up tightly on rollers.· The gaunt faces beneath closely cropped heads and the young faces on emaciated bodies had began to assume form and substance.· I had nowhere on our journey to and from the horse car seen the man with the gaunt face.· It was a youthful but gaunt face from which a yes meant no.· A wraith with bright eyes in his gaunt face.· He stood there, the lantern's pale flame casting light and shadow over his gaunt face.· The devilish smile, oblique and sharp as a scar, had come back to the gaunt face.· He was in his mid-fifties with a gaunt face and thinning wavy red hair. 1very thin and pale, especially because of illness or continued worry SYN  drawn:  the old man’s gaunt face► see thesaurus at thin2 literary a building, mountain etc that is gaunt looks very plain and unpleasant:  a gaunt cathedral—gauntness noun [uncountable]
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