gaunt

«gaunt» in Mova's school dictionary: very thin, with a bony, hungry look, often from illness… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

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

in stories, a hungry beggar or a grim, bony face looks gaunt

examples

• 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

• They are gaunt with want and famine; they gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «gaunt» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.