gauntness
Severe thinness showing
Gauntness is the quality of being gaunt—extremely thin, bony, and worn-looking.
The word suggests not just leanness but the haggard appearance that comes from illness, hunger, or exhaustion: The gauntness of his face showed how hard the winter had been.
It can also describe stark, bare landscapes.
Of or like bones
- bonyThin, with protruding skeleton
- wastingUsing poorly, inefficiently
- scrawninessExtreme, unhealthy thinness
- hollownessState of being empty inside
sunken · angular · cadaverous · rawboned · skin-and-bones · drawn · pinched · atrophy
Exhausted in appearance
- wornDamaged by use
- wearyDeeply tired, spent
- carewornWeary from prolonged anxiety
- drawnRendered in lines
fatigued · drained · strained · hollow-eyed · overworked · sleepless · spent · depleted
Severe food shortage
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- malnutritionDisease from dietary inadequacy
- undernourishmentInsufficient dietary intake
- famishedIntensely, painfully hungry
starving · deprivation · cachexia · ravenous · wasting · scarcity · want · pangs
Severe and unadorned
- severeExtremely harsh or strict
- spareHeld in reserve
- asceticOne who renounces indulgence
- spartanRigorously simple, unadorned
bleak · barren · harsh · unadorned · forbidding · grim · desolate · angular
Unhealthy facial whiteness
- sallowUnhealthily yellowish complexion
- sicklyProne to poor health
- consumptiveAffected by tuberculosis
- tubercularPertaining to lung nodules
anemia · debilitation · cancer · AIDS · chronic · bedridden · terminal · fever
skeletal
Of or like bones
- bonyThin, with protruding skeleton
- wastingUsing poorly, inefficiently
- scrawninessExtreme, unhealthy thinness
hollowness · sunken · angular · cadaverous · rawboned · skin-and-bones · drawn · pinched · atrophy · shriveled
haggard
Exhausted in appearance
drawn · fatigued · drained · strained · hollow-eyed · overworked · sleepless · spent · depleted · weathered
famine
Severe food shortage
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- malnutritionDisease from dietary inadequacy
- undernourishmentInsufficient dietary intake
famished · starving · deprivation · cachexia · ravenous · wasting · scarcity · want · pangs · fasting
stark
Severe and unadorned
spartan · bleak · barren · harsh · unadorned · forbidding · grim · desolate · angular · sharp
pallor
Unhealthy facial whiteness
- sallowUnhealthily yellowish complexion
- sicklyProne to poor health
- consumptiveAffected by tuberculosis
tubercular · anemia · debilitation · cancer · AIDS · chronic · bedridden · terminal · fever · weakness
- weaknessweakness, feebleness, frailty, debility, asthenia
- uglinessugliness, unattractiveness, unsightliness, hideousness, homeliness
gauntnessplumpness
Condition of being full-figured
fatness · corpulence · obesity · rotundity · portliness
gauntnessrobustness
Resistance to failure
healthiness · rosiness · bloom · vitality · ruddiness
gaunt, emaciated, thinness, leanness, gaunter, gauntly, gauntest