hollow-cheeked adj

hollow-cheeked adj
[ˌhɒləʊ'tʃiːkt]
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  • haggard — adj 1. drawn, hollow eyed, worn, weary, tired; run down, wearied, toilworn, wayworn; drained, spent, worn out, played out; exhausted, beaten, Inf. beat, Inf. done in, ready to drop. 2. seedy, Inf. under the weather, peaked, pale, pallid, wan;… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • wan — adj 1. pale, ashen, ashy, pallid, colorless; white, white as a sheet, bloodless, ghostly, pasty, sallow. 2. tired, worn, weary; unhealthy, sickly, haggard, gaunt, ghastly, thin, emaciated, hollow cheeked; unhappy, sad, Fr. triste. melancholy,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • gaunt — adj 1. thin, thin as a reed or rail, lean, meager, spare, lank, lanky; skinny, too skinny to throw a shadow, skin and bones, bony, rawboned; skeletal, emaciated, angular; stalky, spindly, spindle shanked, spindle legged; scrawny, scraggy, looking …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • rawboned — adj gaunt, thin, thin as a reed or rail, lean, meager, spare, lank, lanky, gangling, gangly; skinny, too skinny to throw a shadow, skin and bones, bony, angular, skeletal; stalky, spindly, spindle shanked, spindle legged; scrawny, scraggy,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • scraggy — adj 1. scrawny, thin, thin as a reed or rail, weedy, lean, slender, stalky; skinny, too skinny to throw a shadow, skin and bones, gaunt, rawboned, angular, bony, skeletal; meager, spare, lank, lanky, gangly, gangling, spindly, spindle shanked,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • skinny — adj 1. lean, slender, lank, thin, thin as a rail, attenuate; bony, lanky, gangling, gangly, Inf. weedy; gaunt, haggard, emaciated, meager, spare, scrawny, fleshless; scraggy, spindly, spindle shanked, skeletal, bare boned, raw boned, skin and… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • thin — adj 1. thinnish, lean, spare, attenuate, attenuated; narrow, slender, slim, gracile, svelte, lithe, graceful; slight, wispy, wisplike; skinny, twiggy, thin as a reed or rail, narrow as an arrow, thin as six o clock, slender as a thread, too… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • underweight — adj skinny, skin and bones, fleshless, gaunt, bony, rawboned, skeletal; spindly, spindle shanked, twiggy, gangling, scrawny, scraggy, undersized; undernourished, underfed, half starved, starved look ing; hollow cheeked, pinched, shrunken, wasted …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • haggard — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. drawn, gaunt; cadaverous, skeletal. See ugliness, narrowness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. gaunt, careworn, fretted; see thin 2 , weak 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a. [HAG… …   English dictionary for students

  • lean — I v 1. incline, bend, angle, bevel, cant, slope, slant, pitch, grade, bank; slouch, slump, bow over; descend, fall, drop, dip, sag; swerve, swing, veer, turn, curve, fork; sway, totter, falter; careen, list, heel, tip. 2. tend, have a tendency,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • wan — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. pale, pallid, waxen, waxy, ashen, ashy, bloodless. See colorlessness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. colorless, sickly, blanched; see pale 1 . See Synonym Study at pale . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) …   English dictionary for students

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