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单词 haggard
释义

haggard

1 of 2

adjective

hag·​gard ˈha-gərd How to pronounce haggard (audio)
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
haggardly adverb
haggardness noun

haggard

2 of 2

noun

1
: an adult hawk caught wild
2
obsolete : an intractable person

Synonyms

Adjective

  • cadaverous
  • emaciated
  • gaunt
  • skeletal
  • wasted
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Example Sentences

Adjective She looked tired and haggard. We were shocked by his haggard appearance.
Recent Examples on the Web
Adjective
Mickelson, who looked increasingly haggard, tied for thirty-third—seventeen strokes behind Schwartzel but fourteen ahead of Andy Ogletree, the 2019 U.S. amateur champion, who got $120,000 for finishing last. David Owen, The New Yorker, 15 June 2022 Both of them were old and haggard by the time their last pictures arrived. Kyle Smith, National Review, 1 June 2022 That haggard performance pushed the nation’s preseason No. 1 team out of the Top 25 with less than a month to go before the selection committee revealed its NCAA Tournament selections. Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 30 May 2022 The Ukrainian teacher appears haggard, exhausted, and overwhelmed by the trauma of witnessing Russia’s deadly military advance on his hometown of Bucha, the suburb northwest of Kyiv whose name has become synonymous with Russian cruelties in Ukraine. Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Apr. 2022 Visions of screaming Valkyries (model Ineta Sliuzaite) and a haggard He-Witch (Ingvar Sigurðsson) pack a hallucinatory punch amid the film’s otherworldly locales. Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Apr. 2022 Pine is terrific, seeming to age over the course of the meal and become visibly more haggard as his options narrow, while Newton superbly balances professional detachment with the emotional debris underneath. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Apr. 2022 So Dickens says, on this day when the sun seems to have died, and the haggard glow of gaslight can barely brighten the mist. Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 6 Apr. 2022 This haggard old sponge simply can’t be expected to absorb everything. Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 4 Mar. 2022
Noun
Town officials argue that redeveloping the haggard and mostly empty plaza and its roughly 20 acres is a key component to reviving the entire Silver Lane corridor. Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 29 May 2022 After 20 years away, Odysseus (Fiennes) washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognizable. Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2022 Stepping onto the Screaming Trees‘ tour bus, singer Mark Lanegan has the half-haggard look of a man somewhere in the middle of a long tour. Jim Greer, SPIN, 10 Apr. 2022 Although bruised by rough weather and haggard from lack of sleep, both Yeager, 34, and Rutan, 48, appeared amazingly fit and in good spirits. San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2021 Darrow stood across the grassy square, looking haggard and paunchy. Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2021 Merkel, looking shell-shocked and haggard, was almost mute. Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021 Merkel, looking shell-shocked and haggard, was almost mute. Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021 Merkel, looking shell-shocked and haggard, was almost mute. Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021 See More

Word History

Etymology

Adjective and Noun

Middle French hagard

First Known Use

Adjective

circa 1566, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Noun

1567, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

haggard

adjective

hag·​gard ˈha-gərd How to pronounce haggard (audio)
: having a hungry, tired, or worried look
… she stared down at the table at a loss for words and then, at last, she raised a haggard face. Mary Norton, The Borrowers

Biographical Definition

Haggard

biographical name

Hag·​gard ˈha-gərd How to pronounce Haggard (audio)
Sir (Henry) Rider 1856–1925 English novelist

haggard

adjective

as in gaunt
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 & Similar Words

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  • gaunt
  • skeletal
  • emaciated
  • starved
  • starving
  • cadaverous
  • bony
  • hungry
  • thin
  • skinny
  • scrawny
  • lank
  • lanky
  • underfed
  • rawboned
  • scraggy
  • wasted
  • undernourished
  • sinewy
  • wizened
  • boney
  • famished
  • shriveled
  • withered
  • shrivelled
  • spare

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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