Gaunt

Adjective

 * 1) lean, angular, and bony
 * 2) haggard, drawn, and emaciated
 * 3) bleak, barren, and desolate
 * 1) bleak, barren, and desolate
 * 1) bleak, barren, and desolate

Synonyms for Gaunt

 * scraggy, scrawny, skinny, emaciated, haggard, bony, meager, lank, attenuated, slender, thin, lean, spare, shriveled, hollow, empty, hungry, withered, shrunken.

Antonyms for Gaunt
stout, fat, obese, heavy, robust, plethoric, gross, corpulent, plump, fleshy, brawny, portly, lusty, well-fed, well-developed, strong, hearty, hale, vigorous.

Thesaurus
acarpous, angular, arid, bare, barren, bleak, bony, cadaverous, celibate, childless, desert, deserted, desolate, dismal, drained, dreary, dried-up, dry, emaciated, exhausted, fallow, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, forbidding, forlorn, fruitless, gangling, gangly, gawky, gelded, grim, haggard, harsh, hostile, impotent, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, inimical, issueless, jejune, lank, lanky, leached, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, meager, menopausal, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, pinched, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, sine prole, skeletal, skinny, spare, spidery, spindling, spindly, stark, sterile, stern, sucked dry, teemless, thin, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, twiggy, uncultivated, undersized, underweight, unfertile, unfriendly, unfruitful, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unsown, untilled, virgin, waste, wasted, without issue

Etymology
Perhaps from a Scandinavian source, compare Old Norse gandr: (Danish gand:/gan:, Norwegian bokmål gand:)

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 瘦削
 * German: knochig,,  ,


 * Russian: сухопарый, костлявый, тощий, худой
 * Serbo-Croatian: koščat, suhonjav, ispijen


 * French:


 * Russian: исхудалый, исхудавший