Adjective: gaunt (gaunter,gauntest) gont
- Very thin especially from disease, hunger or cold
"a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys";
- cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted
- Bleak, barren and desolate
"The gaunt landscape of the desert stretched for miles"
Derived forms: gaunter, gauntest
See also: lean, meager [N. Amer], meagre [Brit, Cdn], thin
Encyclopedia: Gaunt, Mary