Synonyms: Rider Haggard, Sir Henry Rider Haggard, Haggard
Definition: British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)
Definition: writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
Synonyms: haggard, skeletal, cadaverous, bony, emaciated, gaunt, wasted, pinched
Definition: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
Usage: emaciated bony hands; 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
Definition: lacking excess flesh
Usage: you can't be too rich or too thin; Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look-Shakespeare
Synonyms: careworn, worn, drawn, haggard, raddled
Definition: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering
Usage: looking careworn as she bent over her mending; her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness; that raddled but still noble face; shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face- Charles Dickens
Similar words: tired
Definition: depleted of strength or energy
Usage: tired mothers with crying babies; too tired to eat