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say it: HAG-urd
haggard is an adjective and noun meaning "showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering". It carries 3 recorded senses.
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
“a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys”
“eyes were haggard and cavernous”
“small pinched faces”
“kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration”
British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for haggard come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.