gauntly
In emaciated fashion
In a gaunt manner—looking thin, bony, or haggard.
The word typically describes how someone appears when illness, age, or hardship has stripped away flesh: He smiled gauntly from the hospital bed.
It can also describe bleak landscapes or architecture: The abandoned factory stood gauntly against the winter sky.
Of or like bones
- bonyThin, with protruding skeleton
- cadaverousResembling the deceased
- wastedUsed without good result
- scrawnyUnattractively thin and bony
thin · lean · lanky · angular · sunken · shriveled · withered · pinched
Weary from prolonged anxiety
fatigued · drained · hollow-eyed · lined · aged · weathered · tired · spent
Severe and unadorned
- desolateBleak and abandoned
- barrenUnable to produce
- austereSeverely simple and unadorned
- spareHeld in reserve
grim · forbidding · harsh · bare · severe · somber · cheerless · dreary
Resembling a specter
- phantomlikeResembling a specter
- wraithlikeResembling a ghost
- hauntingDisturbingly unforgettable
- etherealDelicate beyond earthly measure
eerie · shadowy · otherworldly · apparitional · deathlike · corpselike · ghastly · sepulchral
skeletal
Of or like bones
- bonyThin, with protruding skeleton
- cadaverousResembling the deceased
- wastedUsed without good result
scrawny · thin · lean · lanky · angular · sunken · shriveled · withered · pinched · spare
careworn
Weary from prolonged anxiety
worn · fatigued · drained · hollow-eyed · lined · aged · weathered · tired · spent · sallow
stark
Severe and unadorned
spare · grim · forbidding · harsh · bare · severe · somber · cheerless · dreary · gloomy
ghostly
Resembling a specter
- phantomlikeResembling a specter
- wraithlikeResembling a ghost
- hauntingDisturbingly unforgettable
ethereal · eerie · shadowy · otherworldly · apparitional · deathlike · corpselike · ghastly · sepulchral · macabre