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adjective ɡɔːntɡɔnt 1(of a person) lean and haggard, especially because of suffering, hunger, or age. （尤指人因苦难、饥饿或衰老而）瘦削的；憔悴的 a tall, gaunt woman in black Example sentencesExamples - He was gaunt, looked very tired, and was clearly struggling.
- He was gaunt from drinking too much vodka and his marriage was on the skids.
- The priest's gaunt figure dissolved into the shadows beyond the kitchen door.
- His face was gaunt, his eyes and his cheekbones hollow.
- He is a fair, gaunt man of Norwegian extraction, an international lawyer I think, and has a careful, courteous manner.
- His hair was limp and unruly, his once cheerful blue eyes were cold and distant, and he was gaunt and tired-looking from the burden he now had to carry.
- Many looked gaunt, clothes hanging off them as if draped on clothes racks.
- John was a tall, gaunt man with sunken eyes and a smile that spoke of shyness.
- She was very gaunt and fairly pale, but her personality was like the glowing stars.
- The light from outside the table cast an odd glare on his face, making his face look gaunt.
- She was gaunt, painfully thin, expressionless, wearing a sleeveless top, dark pants, and sandals.
- Then I just noticed how skinny he was, almost gaunt.
- She brought choice cuts of meat to the porter's dog, and ordered full meals for the gaunt nuns who came to collect alms at awkward hours of the day.
- He was gaunt and serious from the start, with minimal hand movements and only slightly gesticulating as he dipped into domestic policy issues.
- Henry's gaunt figure came into the rim of light cast by the desk lamp.
- Now he is so thin he looks almost gaunt.
- Its twisted trunk and mangled branches resembled a terrifyingly gaunt person arching their back in immense agony.
- He was gaunt, his blond hair gone stringy, and his greasy tux fit the dress code only under the most generous interpretation.
- Her elfin face was thin and angular, almost gaunt, with a small, straight nose.
- She was achingly gaunt, her skin pasty white, the lines of her face stark and startling in their prominence.
Synonyms haggard, drawn, cadaverous, skeletal, emaciated, skin-and-bones, skinny, spindly, thin, over-thin, size-zero, spare, bony, angular, lank, lean, raw-boned, pinched, hollow-cheeked, hollow-eyed, lantern-jawed, scrawny, scraggy, shrivelled, wasted, withered, raddled as thin as a rake, as thin as a reed, without an ounce of fat informal looking like death warmed up, looking like a bag of bones dated spindle-shanked archaic starveling - 1.1 (of a building or place) grim or desolate in appearance.
（建筑物或地方）阴森的，荒凉的 Example sentencesExamples - The tall buildings flickered with a glow of white, gaunt towers rising like obelisks in the night thrusting towards a heaven that would forever elude them.
- With Ahmed as our guide, we are taken to a gaunt, dilapidated building.
- Seven miles of bleak shoreline separate Cobra Mist and the gaunt Martello tower at Shingle Street.
- He juxtaposes these gaunt scenes with striking black-and-white shots of beaches and landscape.
- The moon had finally moved far enough over the high walls of the pass to cast some of its gaunt white light down into the narrows below.
- The newer ones may be concrete and 15 or 20 stories high - gaunt, ugly buildings on an inhuman scale.
- On the tram ride out you pass building sites and the gaunt trusses of an overgrown railway bridge.
- Cabooses are another fast disappearing symbol of the railways, those that remain are a gaunt remnant of the former glory of a bygone era.
- He scoured the gaunt landscape as if his primordial authority was enough to plunge the lid of the monochrome building down to floor level to allow him a cowardly escape.
- Wherever I played football, the huge gaunt stadium was always the touchstone of my career, the place where I came home to show my people that I could still do the job.
- Windsor Castle stood out, gaunt and noble in the mist.
- More than 80,000 fans filled the big, gaunt ground.
- One, by the very nature of theatre in the round, is a sense of the house itself as a gaunt, intimidating presence.
- Fields gave way to scattered woodlands, bare and gaunt against the early winter darkness.
- In a gaunt and craggy landscape the soft, well-rounded Magdalen weeps over her past.
Synonyms bleak, stark, barren, bare, drab, desolate, dreary, dismal, gloomy, sombre, forlorn, grim, stern, harsh, forbidding, uninviting, unwelcoming, cheerless
Derivativesadverb The style is often lightly conversational, yet it is a gauntly powerful book. Example sentencesExamples - The figure at Dick's bedside seems initially different, as he wakes ‘to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at me gauntly’.
- It starts with some poets, gauntly tubercular sorts with laudanum habits and loose-fitting shirts.
- There were, however, sightings of strange apparitions dimly gleaming gauntly in the night sky over the Lich Tower.
- A tall woman with a long, gauntly face marched up to us, taking both Terry and me by the sleeves and dragging us inside.
noun ˈɡɔːntnəsˈɡɔn(t)nəs His face is thin nearly to gauntness, and covered with sad lines. Example sentencesExamples - He cocked his head and looked down at her, noting for the first time the shadows beneath her eyes, the gauntness of her cheeks.
- He looked up as we approached and I was momentarily shocked by the gauntness, the almost metallic grayness that dusted what had once been a tawny coat.
- On those occasions when we see him without a shirt, the almost-skeletal gauntness of his frame is apparent.
- The soldier was dark-haired and thin almost to the point of gauntness, with pale cheeks.
OriginLate Middle English: of unknown origin. Rhymesavaunt, daunt, flaunt, haunt, jaunt, taunt, vaunt adjectiveɡôntɡɔnt 1(of a person) lean and haggard, especially because of suffering, hunger, or age. （尤指人因苦难、饥饿或衰老而）瘦削的；憔悴的 a tall, gaunt woman in black Example sentencesExamples - Then I just noticed how skinny he was, almost gaunt.
- Many looked gaunt, clothes hanging off them as if draped on clothes racks.
- She brought choice cuts of meat to the porter's dog, and ordered full meals for the gaunt nuns who came to collect alms at awkward hours of the day.
- His face was gaunt, his eyes and his cheekbones hollow.
- He is a fair, gaunt man of Norwegian extraction, an international lawyer I think, and has a careful, courteous manner.
- He was gaunt and serious from the start, with minimal hand movements and only slightly gesticulating as he dipped into domestic policy issues.
- Henry's gaunt figure came into the rim of light cast by the desk lamp.
- She was gaunt, painfully thin, expressionless, wearing a sleeveless top, dark pants, and sandals.
- The priest's gaunt figure dissolved into the shadows beyond the kitchen door.
- Now he is so thin he looks almost gaunt.
- His hair was limp and unruly, his once cheerful blue eyes were cold and distant, and he was gaunt and tired-looking from the burden he now had to carry.
- John was a tall, gaunt man with sunken eyes and a smile that spoke of shyness.
- He was gaunt, his blond hair gone stringy, and his greasy tux fit the dress code only under the most generous interpretation.
- He was gaunt, looked very tired, and was clearly struggling.
- She was very gaunt and fairly pale, but her personality was like the glowing stars.
- The light from outside the table cast an odd glare on his face, making his face look gaunt.
- Her elfin face was thin and angular, almost gaunt, with a small, straight nose.
- Its twisted trunk and mangled branches resembled a terrifyingly gaunt person arching their back in immense agony.
- She was achingly gaunt, her skin pasty white, the lines of her face stark and startling in their prominence.
- He was gaunt from drinking too much vodka and his marriage was on the skids.
Synonyms haggard, drawn, cadaverous, skeletal, emaciated, skin-and-bones, skinny, spindly, thin, over-thin, size-zero, spare, bony, angular, lank, lean, raw-boned, pinched, hollow-cheeked, hollow-eyed, lantern-jawed, scrawny, scraggy, shrivelled, wasted, withered, raddled - 1.1 (of a building or place) grim or desolate in appearance.
（建筑物或地方）阴森的，荒凉的 Example sentencesExamples - Wherever I played football, the huge gaunt stadium was always the touchstone of my career, the place where I came home to show my people that I could still do the job.
- Cabooses are another fast disappearing symbol of the railways, those that remain are a gaunt remnant of the former glory of a bygone era.
- The moon had finally moved far enough over the high walls of the pass to cast some of its gaunt white light down into the narrows below.
- On the tram ride out you pass building sites and the gaunt trusses of an overgrown railway bridge.
- He juxtaposes these gaunt scenes with striking black-and-white shots of beaches and landscape.
- Windsor Castle stood out, gaunt and noble in the mist.
- Fields gave way to scattered woodlands, bare and gaunt against the early winter darkness.
- The newer ones may be concrete and 15 or 20 stories high - gaunt, ugly buildings on an inhuman scale.
- More than 80,000 fans filled the big, gaunt ground.
- With Ahmed as our guide, we are taken to a gaunt, dilapidated building.
- In a gaunt and craggy landscape the soft, well-rounded Magdalen weeps over her past.
- He scoured the gaunt landscape as if his primordial authority was enough to plunge the lid of the monochrome building down to floor level to allow him a cowardly escape.
- One, by the very nature of theatre in the round, is a sense of the house itself as a gaunt, intimidating presence.
- Seven miles of bleak shoreline separate Cobra Mist and the gaunt Martello tower at Shingle Street.
- The tall buildings flickered with a glow of white, gaunt towers rising like obelisks in the night thrusting towards a heaven that would forever elude them.
Synonyms bleak, stark, barren, bare, drab, desolate, dreary, dismal, gloomy, sombre, forlorn, grim, stern, harsh, forbidding, uninviting, unwelcoming, cheerless
OriginLate Middle English: of unknown origin. |