Gaunt

a.

1.

Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim. A mysterious but visible pestilence, striding gaunt and fleshless across our land. - Nichols.

Adj.

1.

gaunt - very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" Synonyms: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted

acarpous, angular, arid, bare, barren, bleak, bony, cadaverous, celibate, childless, desert, deserted, desolate, dismal, drained, dreary, dried-up, dry, exhausted, fallow, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, forbidding, forlorn, fruitless, gangling, gangly, gawky, gelded, grim, haggard, harsh, hostile, impotent, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, inimical, issueless, jejune, lanky, leached, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, menopausal, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, pinched, rawboned, scraggy, sine prole, skeletal, spidery, spindling, spindly, stark, sterile, stern, sucked dry, teemless, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, twiggy, uncultivated, undersized, underweight, unfertile, unfriendly, unfruitful, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unsown, untilled, virgin, waste, wasted, without issue