haggard
Showing sleepless nights
Haggard describes someone looking exhausted, gaunt, or worn down—typically from prolonged stress, illness, lack of sleep, or suffering.
The word suggests visible deterioration: sunken cheeks, dark circles, a drawn face.
She looked haggard after weeks of caring for her dying mother.
In falconry, haggard refers to a hawk caught as an adult, already wild—a sense that may have influenced the word's connotations of being weathered by hard experience.
Drained of energy
- wearyDeeply tired, spent
- drainedEmptied of resources
- tiredLacking energy, needing rest
- spentExhausted or disbursed
careworn · drawn · worn-out · overworked · sleepless · harrowed · strained · stressed
Abnormally wasted from hunger
- skeletalOf or like bones
- cadaverousResembling the deceased
- thinSmall in diameter
- wastedUsed without good result
bony · pinched · sunken · drawn · wan · pallid · sallow · starved
Untidy in appearance
- scruffyMessily neglected in appearance
- slovenlyUntidy and careless
- shabbyWorn and neglected
- raggedWorn to shreds
tousled · rumpled · bedraggled · tangled · matted · windswept · uncombed · straggly
Not taken back
- untrainedLacking learned skills
- wild-caughtCaptured from the environment
- falconSwift bird of prey
- hawkTaloned predatory bird
raptor · passage hawk · trapped · mature
fatigued
Drained of energy
spent · careworn · drawn · worn-out · overworked · sleepless · harrowed · strained · stressed · world-weary
emaciated
Abnormally wasted from hunger
- skeletalOf or like bones
- cadaverousResembling the deceased
- thinSmall in diameter
wasted · bony · pinched · sunken · drawn · wan · pallid · sallow · starved · undernourished
unkempt
Untidy in appearance
ragged · tousled · rumpled · bedraggled · tangled · matted · windswept · uncombed · straggly · frowzy
unreclaimed
Not taken back
- untrainedLacking learned skills
- wild-caughtCaptured from the environment
- falconSwift bird of prey
hawk · raptor · passage hawk · trapped · mature
untamed
Not domesticated
- feralWild after domestication
- fierceViolently intense or aggressive
- predatoryExploiting the vulnerable
sharp-eyed · piercing · intense · hunted · haunted · desperate · frantic · crazed · manic · unhinged
- Merle HaggardOkie from Muskogee