Gaunt vs. Haggard — What's the Difference?

Thin or emaciated

Exhausted or distraught and often gaunt in appearance.

Lean, angular, and bony.

Wild and intractable. Used of a hawk in falconry.

Haggard, drawn, and emaciated.

An adult hawk captured for training.

Bleak, barren, and desolate.

Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition

Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.

(of an animal) Wild or untamed

Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;

(falconry) A hunting bird captured as an adult.

(falconry) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.

(obsolete) A fierce, intractable creature.

(obsolete) A hag.

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

Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk.

Having the expression of one wasted by want or suffering; hollow-eyed; having the features distorted or wasted by pain; wild and wasted, or anxious in appearance; as, haggard features, eyes.

A young or untrained hawk or falcon.

A fierce, intractable creature.

A hag.

A stackyard.

British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)

Showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering;

Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;