Crossword Path

Find words for crosswords, Scrabble and word games

Word entry · 5 letters

gaunt

Best crossword clue

"Very thin"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ɡɔːnt/Part of speech adjectiveSorted agntuStarts with GEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
1G2A3U4N5T

Mini crossword

Today's mini takes a couple of minutes.

Play the mini →

Is this your crossword clue?

"gaunt" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often emaciated (9 letters).

Definitions

  1. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

Used in a sentence

  • “[H]e presented for the first time to Mannering his tall, gaunt, awkward, boney figure, attired in a threadbare suit of black, […]”
  • “Hanging from the beam, / Slowly swaying (such the law), / Gaunt the shadow on your green, / Shenandoah!”
  • “He rose with difficulty; a tall, gaunt, terrible form, black and weird against the shining sea and the starry skies.”

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues

01“Very thin”5 letters

Not quite right?

"Search similar patterns."

G____

Related words