Gaunt

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Angular, bony, and lean.

   “[H]e presented for the first time to Mannering his tall, gaunt, awkward, boney figure, attired in a threadbare suit of black, […]”

2. sıfat Unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness: drawn, emaciated, haggard.

   “VVhen once he [a horse]'s broken, feed him full and high: / Indulge his Grovvth, and his gaunt ſides ſupply.”

3. sıfat Of a place or thing: bleak, desolate.

   “But all that night, waking or in my sleep, the same thoughts recurred and the same images retained possession of my brain. I had ever before me the old dark murky rooms—the gaunt suits of mail with their ghostly silent air—the faces all awry, grinning from wood and stone— […]”

4. sıfat Greedy; also, hungry, ravenous.

   “Gorg'd vvith our plunder, yet ſtill gaunt for ſpoil, / Rapacious G—d—n faſtens on our iſle; […]”

5. sıfat With a positive or neutral connotation: not overweight; lean, slender, slim.

   “[O]ur friend began to amend, and he was quite well (though gaunt as a greyhound) before they reached the Cape.”

6. sıfat Of a sound: suggesting bleakness and desolation.

   “To the shouting throng / My fancy hears a dismal voice reply, / Like the gaunt echo of a hollow tomb.— […]”

7. özel isim A surname.
8. özel isim Obsolete spelling of Ghent.