Dictionary Definition
haggard adj
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 [syn: 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" [syn: bony,
cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, pinched, skeletal, wasted] n : British writer noted
for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925) [syn: Rider
Haggard, Sir
Henry Rider Haggard]
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English
Derived terms
Translations
looking exhausted and unwell
- Chinese: 枯槁 (kūgǎo)
- Croatian: oronuo, bijedan
- Finnish: riutunut, voipunut, sairaalloisen näköinen, kalvakka
- German: abgespannt, ausgezehrt
- Japanese: やつれた
- Korean: 수척한 (sucheokhan)
- Russian: измождённый (izmoždjónnyj)
- Swedish: härjad
wild or untamed
- Croatian: divlji
- Finnish: hurja
- German: wild
Noun
- In the context of "dialect|Manx|Hiberno": A stackyard, an enclosure on a
farm for stacking grain, hay, etc. Used in Manx English
and Hiberno-English.
- "He tuk a slew [swerve] round the haggard" http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/am1924/pt_s.htm
Extensive Definition
Haggard is a surname, and may refer to:
People
- H. Rider Haggard, Sir, British Victorian writer of adventure novels
- Merle Haggard, American country music singer and songwriter
- Piers Haggard, British film and television director
- Ted Haggard, founder & former pastor of New Life Church - Colorado Springs, Colorado
- William Haggard, British author of fictional spy thrillers
Other
- Haggard (band), a German symphonic metal band
- Haggard: The Movie, a film by Bam Margera
- Haggard (TV series), a British comedy television series
- USS Haggard (DD-555) (1943-1945) destroyer
- King Haggard is a character in Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn
haggard in German: Haggard
haggard in Italian: Haggard
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abandoned, achromatic, achromic, amok, anemic, angular, ashen, ashy, attenuated, bellowing, berserk, bigoted, bled white, bloodless, blue, cadaverous, careworn, carried away,
chloranemic,
colorless, corpselike, dead, deadly, deadly pale, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, delirious, demoniac, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, distracted, drawn, dull, ecstatic, eerie, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, enraptured, etiolated, exhausted, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, extravagant, extreme, extremist, faded, fagged, faint, fallow, fanatic, fatigued, feral, ferocious, fierce, flat, frantic, frenzied, fulminating, furious, gaunt, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, gray, grisly, gruesome, hog-wild,
hollow-eyed, howling,
hueless, hypochromic, hysterical, in a transport,
in hysterics, inordinate, intoxicated, irrational, jejune, lackluster, lank, leaden, lean, livid, lurid, lusterless, macabre, mad, madding, maniac, marantic, marasmic, mat, mealy, mortuary, muddy, neutral, orgasmic, orgiastic, overenthusiastic,
overreligious,
overzealous,
pale, pale as death,
pale-faced, pallid,
pasty, peaked, peaky, perfervid, pinched, played out, poor, possessed, puny, rabid, raging, ramping, ranting, ravaged, raving, ravished, roaring, run-down, running mad,
sallow, scraggy, scrawny, shriveled, shrunken, sickly, skeletal, skinny, spare, spent, starved, starveling, storming, tabetic, tabid, tallow-faced, tired, tired-eyed, tired-faced,
tired-looking, toneless, transported, ultrazealous, uncanny, uncolored, uncontrollable, underfed, undernourished, unearthly, unreasonable, violent, wan, washed-out, wasted, waxen, weak, wearied, weary, weary-looking, weazeny, weird, whey-faced, white, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking,
withered, wizened, worn, worn-down, wraithlike, zealotic