haggard

haggard /'hægəd/
  • tính từ
    • hốc hác, phờ phạc (vì mệt mỏi, mất ngủ, lo lắng)
    • không thuần, không dạy được (vì lớn rồi mới bắt) (chim ưng)
    • danh từ
      • chim ưng không dạy được (vì lớn rồi mới bắt)

    Xem thêm: Haggard, Rider Haggard, Sir Henry Rider Haggard, careworn, drawn, raddled, worn, bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, pinched, skeletal, wasted



    haggard

    Từ điển WordNet

      adj.

    • showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens; careworn, drawn, raddled, worn
    • very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, pinched, skeletal, wasted

      emaciated bony hands

      a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys

      eyes were haggard and cavernous

      small pinched faces

      kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration

    English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

    haggards
    syn.: deathlike exhausted lean pale poor seedy thin wild-eyed worried