haggard
adjective
1. showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering
- her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness
Similar word(s): tired, careworn, drawn, raddled, worn
2. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
- eyes were haggard and cavernous
Similar word(s): lean, thin, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, pinched, skeletal, wasted
Sentences with haggard as an adjective:
- Pale and haggard faces.
- A gradual descent into a haggard and feeble state.
- The years of hardship made her look somewhat haggard.
- a haggard or refractory hawk