gaunter
Thinner and hollower
Gaunter is the comparative form of gaunt, meaning more thin and haggard.
Someone recovering from illness may look gaunter than before.
Each passing week left him gaunter and more hollow-eyed.
Of or like bones
- bonyThin, with protruding skeleton
- scrawnyUnattractively thin and bony
- starvedSuffering extreme hunger
- witheredDried and shrunken
wasted · haggard · cadaverous · pinched · drawn · sunken · shriveled · famished
Resembling a specter
- ghastlyTerrifyingly horrible or pale
- cadaverousResembling the deceased
- deathlyResembling the grave
- wraithlikeResembling a ghost
pallid · ashen · wan · sallow · corpselike · sepulchral · hollow-eyed · phantasmal
Affected by tuberculosis
- tubercularPertaining to lung nodules
- wastingUsing poorly, inefficiently
- atrophiedDeclined from underuse
- deterioratingBecoming progressively worse
declining · enfeebled · debilitated · sickly · ailing · frail · weakened · bedridden
skeletal
Of or like bones
- bonyThin, with protruding skeleton
- scrawnyUnattractively thin and bony
- starvedSuffering extreme hunger
withered · wasted · haggard · cadaverous · pinched · drawn · sunken · shriveled · famished · underfed
ghostly
Resembling a specter
- ghastlyTerrifyingly horrible or pale
- cadaverousResembling the deceased
- deathlyResembling the grave
wraithlike · pallid · ashen · wan · sallow · corpselike · sepulchral · hollow-eyed · phantasmal · spectral
consumptive
Affected by tuberculosis
- tubercularPertaining to lung nodules
- wastingUsing poorly, inefficiently
- atrophiedDeclined from underuse
deteriorating · declining · enfeebled · debilitated · sickly · ailing · frail · weakened · bedridden · feverish