gaunt

Definitions

Lean and haggard, especially because of suffering, hunger, or age.

Desolate, bleak, or grim in appearance.

Examples

After weeks of illness, he looked pale and gaunt.

The gaunt trees stood like skeletons against the winter sky.

Synonyms

emaciated haggard skeletal bony thin scrawny cadaverous

Antonyms

plump stout chubby corpulent fleshy rotund well-fed