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 Definitions of haggard  [ˈhæg ərd]  

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Definition of 'haggard' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) haggard
gaunt, wasted, or exhausted in appearance, as from prolonged suffering or strain; worn:
the haggard faces of refugees.

2.  haggard
wild; wild-looking.

Etymology:  (1560–70; orig., wild female hawk. See hag1, -ard)

Definition of 'haggard' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (adj) Haggard, Rider Haggard, Sir Henry Rider Haggard
British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)

2. (adj) careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled, worn
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

3. (adj) bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted
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"


Definition of 'haggard' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) haggard
wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk

2. (adj) haggard
having the expression of one wasted by want or suffering; hollow-eyed; having the features distorted or wasted, or anxious in appearance; as, haggard features, eyes

3. (adj) haggard
a young or untrained hawk or falcon

4. (adj) haggard
a fierce, intractable creature

5. (adj) haggard
a hag

6. (noun) haggard
a stackyard


Translation of 'haggard' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: (of a person) looking very tired and thin-faced, because of pain, worry etc
She looked haggard after a sleepless night.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: afgerem Arabic flag Arabic: هَزيل وَمُنْهَك Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: изпит
Brazilian flag Brazilian: macilento Czech flag Czech: ztrhaný German flag German: leidgezeichnet
Danish flag Danish: udkørt Greek flag Greek: ταλαιπωρημένος Spanish flag Spanish: macilento, ojeroso, demac
Estonian flag Estonian: kurnatud Farsi flag Farsi: نحیف و رنگ پریده Finnish flag Finnish: kalvakka
French flag French: hagard, défait Hebrew flag Hebrew: תָּשׁוּש למראה Hindi flag Hindi: थका-हारा
Croatian flag Croatian: izmožden, ispijen Hungarian flag Hungarian: szikár, nyúzott Indonesian flag Indonesian: kurus dan cekung
Icelandic flag Icelandic: gugginn Italian flag Italian: stanco, smunto Japanese flag Japanese: やつれた
Korean flag Korean: 초췌한 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: išvargęs, sumenkęs Latvian flag Latvian: izvārdzis; nomocīts
Malay flag Malay: lesu dan cengkung Dutch flag Dutch: uitgemergeld, afgepeigerd Norwegian flag Norwegian: herjet, hulkinnet, mager
Polish flag Polish: zmizerowany Persian flag Persian: نحیف و رنگ پریده Pashto flag Pashto: ډنګر چې سترګى يې لويدلىوى
Portuguese flag Portuguese: macilento Romanian flag Romanian: tras la faţă Russian flag Russian: измождённый
Slovak flag Slovak: vyčerpaný Slovenian flag Slovenian: upadel Serbian flag Serbian: iznuren
Swedish flag Swedish: tärd, härjad Thai flag Thai: ซูบผอม Turkish flag Turkish: bitkin
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 憔悴的 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: змучений, виснажений Urdu flag Urdu: تھکاماندہ
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: hốc hác Chinese flag Chinese: 憔悴的

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