sunken cheeks
Concave facial features
Sunken cheeks are cheeks that appear hollow or caved inward rather than full, creating visible shadows below the cheekbones.
The condition typically results from weight loss, aging, illness, or dehydration: His sunken cheeks betrayed months of poor health.
The phrase often signals physical decline or hardship in descriptions of people.
- hollowEmpty within
- gauntLean from deprivation
- emaciatedAbnormally wasted from hunger
- skeletalOf or like bones
- skin and bonesExtreme thinness, no flesh
hollow eyes · drawn · haggard · thin · bony · wasted · wasting away · starving · illness · hunger · cheekbones · shadows · pallor · pale complexion · exhaustion · frail · withered · aging
- Facechin, nose, mouth, eyes, eye
- aging signswrinkles, fine lines, wrinkled skin, gray hair, frown lines
- disfigurementsscars, scar, scarring, deformities, deformity
- Cheekbone Typeshigh cheekbones
cheek fullness/volume
sunken cheekschubby cheeks
Full, rounded face sides
puffy cheeks · rosy cheeks · baby face · moon face · double chin
sunken, cheeks, sunk, sinking, sinks, cheek, cheeky, cheekily, cheekiness