haggard

Meaning

Adj

1. Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition
2. Wild or untamed

Noun

1. A hunting bird captured as an adult.
2. A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
3. (obsolete) A fierce, intractable creature.
4. (obsolete) A hag.

Noun

A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.

Synonyms

gaunt

drawn

emaciated

worn

cadaverous

skeletal

become emaciated

pallid

hollow

exhausted

pale

suffer

sunken

thin

tired

😫

careworn

hollow-cheeked

wan

lean

wasted

blear

be worn out

pinched

bony

rawboned

sallow

scrawny

raddled

green

sorry

waxlike

wearied

weary

😩

wild

wizened

worn out

worried

😟

wretched

yellowish

care-worn

ill-looking

corpselike

osteal

pastelike

abject

bareboned

beggarly

blanched

bloodless

debilitated

Translations

hagard

abgezehrt

smunto

macilento

ausgezehrt

selvaggio

hâve

émacié

emaciato

abgespannt

wild

abgehärmt

décharné

verstört

consunto

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈhæɡ.əd/

Etymology

Cognate with French: hagard

Cognate with German: Hag

Cognate with Frankish: *hagia

Cognate with French: haie

In summary

From Middle French haggard, from Old French faulcon hagard (“wild falcon”) ( > French hagard (“dazed”)), from Middle High German hag (“coppice”) ( > archaic German Hag (“hedge, grove”)). Akin to Frankish *hagia ( > French haie (“hedge”))