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

deplorable

disconcerted

disgraceful

distraught

fatigued

fatless

forlorn

furious

ghastly

hectic

mad

miserable

pasty

peaked

piteous

pitiable

rundown

scraggy

scrub

scrubby

seedy

shrivelled

sick

🤢

skinny

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”))