haggard - Definition & Meaning | Lingo Dictionary

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ggard

looking extremely tired, often due to stress, illness, or lack of sleeplooking extremely tired, often due to stress, illness, or lack of sleep

Examples

After days without sleep, he looked haggard and pale.
The travelers appeared haggard after their long and difficult journey.
She gave a haggard smile, her face lined with exhaustion.

Synonyms

beat enervated weary fagged raddled worn dog-tired haggard all in washed-out rundown dead sleepy fatigued knackered bleary drained whacked ragged spent exhausted bushed played out drawn aweary careworn burned out

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ggard

Comparative

more haggard

Superlative

most haggard

1

looking extremely tired, often due to stress, illness, or lack of sleep

After days without sleep, he looked haggard and pale.
The travelers appeared haggard after their long and difficult journey.
She gave a haggard smile, her face lined with exhaustion.
His haggard expression showed the toll the stressful week had taken on him.
The soldiers returned from battle looking haggard and drained.

Synonyms:

beat enervated weary fagged raddled worn dog-tired all in washed-out rundown dead sleepy fatigued knackered bleary drained whacked ragged spent exhausted bushed played out drawn aweary careworn burned out

2

very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

Synonyms:

gaunt emaciated pinched wasted cadaverous skeletal