Definitions for Gaunt

Gaunt gaunt

Spelling: [gawnt]
IPA: /gɔnt/

Gaunt is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in Gaunt (agntu).

Definitions for Gaunt

noun

  1. John of, John of Gaunt.

adjective

  1. extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated.
  2. bleak, desolate, or grim, as places or things:

Origin of Gaunt

1400-50; late Middle English, probably Old French gaunet, jaunet yellowish, derivative of gaune, jaune yellow Latin galbinus greenish-yellow

Examples for Gaunt

One day I was stunned to see that a particular favorite was a gaunt chain-smoker.

Some of Secrest's theories are iffy—she claims the gaunt women of his portraits must be coded consumptives.

It was simply a bare, gaunt, famished skeleton, slaying his way along.

Moore emerged looking “gaunt and pale” at the Oct. 17 premiere of Margin Call, according to Contact Music.

In her last public appearances, Winehouse was stick thin and gaunt.

In order to play the gaunt Woodroof, McConaughey went from 182 pounds to 135, subsisting on what he calls “a controlled diet.”

The other three seniors, attracted by the scene, came back, and waited with gaunt.

He was tall and gaunt, and his deeply graven face was framed by grizzled hair.

Her long, gaunt fingers pulled and worked at the knots, but all in vain.

And gaunt, who was standing by, and knew it also, telegraphed a significant look to Huntley.

Word Value for Gaunt
Scrable

6

Words with friends

9

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