haggard

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

Adjective

looking tired and ill [Old French hagard wild]

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 << OPPOSITE robust

Translations

haggard [ˈhægəd] adj → ojeroso

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haggard [ˈhægəd] adj → hagard(e) → égaré(e)

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haggard [ˈhægəd] adj → ausgezehrt;

(from worry) → abgehärmt;

(from tiredness) → abgespannt

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haggard [ˈhægəd] adj → smunto/a