haggard

  • (s) 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,
  • (s) 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,

Nouns

Synonyms

careworn drawn raddled worn Rider Haggard Sir Henry Rider Haggard bony cadaverous emaciated gaunt pinched skeletal wasted

Words of close approximity

Haggai
Haggada
haggardly