Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Looking exhausted and unwell, especially from fatigue, worry, or hunger: "haggard" describes a person's face or appearance as gaunt, worn, and showing signs of severe strain.
   • Wild or untamed (archaic, used for animals, especially hawks): In older usage, "haggard" described a wild hawk caught as an adult and therefore difficult to train.

2. Noun (Proper):

   • Sir Henry Rider Haggard: A 19th-century British author famous for adventure novels set in exotic locations.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:

  • After three sleepless nights caring for the baby, she looked pale and haggard.
  • The refugees were haggard from their long and difficult journey.
  • His haggard expression revealed the stress of the past week.

• Noun (Proper):

  • H. Rider Haggard is best known for his novel "King Solomon's Mines".

Advanced Usage

• "Haggard with": used to specify the cause of the exhausted appearance.
  • Her face was haggard with grief after the loss.
• "Grow/Become haggard": describes the process of acquiring this worn look.
  • Over the months of the crisis, the prime minister grew visibly haggard.

Variants and Related Words

• Haggardly (adverb): in a haggard manner.
  • He smiled haggardly, his eyes full of fatigue.
• Haggardness (noun): the state or quality of being haggard.
  • The haggardness of his features was shocking to his friends.

Synonyms

• Adjective: Gaunt, drawn, careworn, worn, exhausted, emaciated, cadaverous.
• Noun (Author): (No direct synonyms; the proper name refers to a specific individual.)

Antonyms

• Adjective: Rested, fresh, healthy, robust, radiant, vigorous.

Related Phrases and Idioms

(Note: "Haggard" itself is not commonly used in phrasal verbs or idioms. Its use is primarily descriptive.) - "To look haggard": A common phrase using the word. - You look haggard; you should get some rest.

Adjective

1. 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
2. showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering
   • looking careworn as she bent over her mending
   • her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness
   • that raddled but still noble face
   • shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face- Charles Dickens

Noun

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