haggard meaning and definition

HAGGARD noun

Definition of Haggard (noun)

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

HAGGARD adjective

Definition of haggard (adjective)

1. 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
   • synonyms: careworn, drawn, raddled, worn
2. 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"
   • synonyms: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, pinched, skeletal, wasted