gaunt

Questions about gaunt

What is another word for gaunt?

It depends which gaunt you mean. In the sense “very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold”, the synonyms are cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted. Across all 1 sense there are 6 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of gaunt?

WordNet records no antonym for gaunt. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for gaunt come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of gaunt

• Full entry for gauntAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for gauntWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
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