Definitions for haggard

Definitions for (noun) haggard

Main entry: Rider Haggard, Sir Henry Rider Haggard, Haggard

Definition: British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)


Definitions for (adj) haggard

Main entry: 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


Main entry: 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


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