Usually means: Extremely thin, especially from illness.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. gaunt: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Gaunt, gaunt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gaunt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gaunt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gaunt: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gaunt, gaunt: Wordnik
  7. gaunt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Gaunt, gaunt: Wiktionary
  9. gaunt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gaunt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gaunt: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gaunt, gaunt: Dictionary.com
  13. gaunt: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gaunt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gaunt (band), Gaunt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gaunt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gaunt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gaunt: Rhymezone
  19. gaunt: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gaunt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Gaunt: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. gaunt: Free Dictionary
  23. gaunt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Gaunt, gaunt: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. gaunt: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. gaunt: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gaunt: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gaunt (disambiguation), gaunt: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gaunt: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See gauntly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Lean, angular, and bony.
adjective:  Haggard, drawn, and emaciated.
adjective:  Bleak, barren, and desolate.
noun:  A surname.

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