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Adjective: gaunt (gaunter,gauntest)  gont
  1. Very thin especially from disease, hunger or cold
    "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys";
    - cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted
     
  2. Bleak, barren and desolate

Derived forms: gauntest, gaunter

See also: lean, meager [N. Amer], meagre [Brit, Cdn], thin

Encyclopedia: Gaunt, Jonathan

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Gauguinesque
Gaul
gauleiter
Gaulish
gault
Gaultheria
Gaultheria hispidula
Gaultheria procumbens
Gaultheria shallon
gaumless
gaunt
gauntlet
gauntleted
gauntness
gauntry
gaur
Gauri
Gauss
gauss
Gaussian
Gaussian curve