haggard

/hˈæɡɚd/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

adjective

1. showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering- Charles Dickens
   “looking careworn as she bent over her mending”
2. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
   “a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys”

noun

1. British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)

Synonyms for haggard

• careworn
• drawn
• raddled
• worn
• tired
• cadaverous
• emaciated
• gaunt
• pinched
• skeletal
• wasted
• thin
• Rider Haggard
• Sir Henry Rider Haggard

Words that rhyme with haggard

• laggard
• agard
• maggard
• staggered
• thagard
• thaggard