gaunt
part of speech
adjective (gaunt, gaunter, gauntest)
meaning for a pupil
Gaunt means very thin, with a bony, hungry look, often from illness or hunger. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: Job describes the outcasts of society, starving and wasting away. The book is read as a study of the suffering of the innocent and the limits of human understanding. In the primary lessons: in stories, a hungry beggar or a grim, bony face looks gaunt
examples
- They are gaunt with want and famine; they gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation. (Writings JOB.30.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- After the long winter she looked pale and gaunt. tree →
- The old beggar was gaunt and grey. tree →
- His gaunt face frightened the children. tree →
note
nothing for maths
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «gaunt» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.