Haggard (redirected from Haggard, Sir (Henry) Rider)

Hag·gard  (hgrd), Sir (Henry) Rider 1856-1925.

British writer whose romantic adventure novels include King Solomon's Mines (1885).

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hag·gard  (hgrd)

adj.

1.

a. Appearing worn and exhausted; gaunt.

b. Wild or distraught in appearance.

2. Wild and intractable. Used of a hawk in falconry.

n.

An adult hawk captured for training.

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[French hagard, wild, from Old French, wild hawk, raptor, perhaps of Germanic origin.]

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haggard·ly adv.

haggard·ness n.

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Haggard [ˈhægəd]

n

(Biographies / Haggard, Sir (Henry) Rider (1856-1925) M, British, WRITING: adventure story writer, (1885)) Sir (Henry) Rider. 1856-1925, British author of romantic adventure stories, including King Solomon's Mines (1885)

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haggard¹

adj

1. careworn or gaunt, as from lack of sleep, anxiety, or starvation

2. wild or unruly

3. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Falconry) (of a hawk) having reached maturity in the wild before being caught

n

(Individual Sports & Recreations / Falconry) Falconry a hawk that has reached maturity before being caught Compare eyas, passage hawk

[from Old French hagard wild; perhaps related to hedge]

haggardly  adv

haggardness  n

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haggard²

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) (in Ireland and the Isle of Man) an enclosure beside a farmhouse in which crops are stored

[related to Old Norse heygarthr, from hey hay + garthr yard]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Haggard - British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925) Rider Haggard, Sir Henry Rider Haggard
Adj.	1.	haggard - 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 tired - depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat"
	2.	haggard - very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "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" bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, pinched, skeletal, wasted lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare

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haggard

adjective gaunt, wasted, drawn, thin, pinched, wrinkled, ghastly, wan, emaciated, shrunken, careworn, hollow-eyed He was pale and a bit haggard.
fresh, robust, vigorous, energetic, hale, sleek, brisk, bright-eyed

Translations

haggard [ˈhægəd] ADJ (from tiredness) → ojeroso; (= unwell, unhealthy) → demacrado, macilento

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haggard [ˈhægə^rd] adj (= drawn, careworn) [person] → exténué(e); [face, features] → défait(e)

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haggard

adj → ausgezehrt; (from tiredness) → abgespannt; (from worry) → abgehärmt, verhärmt; he had a very haggard expression throughout the trial → er wirkte während der ganzen Verhandlung sehr mitgenommen

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haggard [ˈhægəd] adj (careworn) → tirato/a; (gaunt) → smunto/a

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haggard [ˈhægəd] adj (careworn) → tirato/a; (gaunt) → smunto/a

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haggard

adj haggard [ˈhӕgəd]

(of a person) looking very tired and thin-faced, because of pain, worry etc She looked haggard after a sleepless night. afgerem هَزيل وَمُنْهَك изпит ztrhaný udkørt leidgezeichnet ταλαιπωρημένος macilento, ojeroso, demacrado kurnatud نحیف و رنگ پریده kalvakka hagard, défait תָּשׁוּש למראה थका-हारा izmožden, ispijen szikár, nyúzott kurus dan cekung gugginn stanco, smunto やつれた 초췌한 išvargęs, sumenkęs izvārdzis; nomocīts lesu dan cengkung uitgemergeld, afgepeigerd herjet, hulkinnet, mager zmizerowany macilento tras la faţă измождённый vyčerpaný upadel iznuren tärd, härjad ซูบผอม bitkin 憔悴的 змучений, виснажений تھکاماندہ hốc hác 憔悴的