haggard

Adjective

• 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
    

• 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

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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  bony , cadaverous , emaciated , gaunt , pinched , skeletal , wasted , careworn , drawn , raddled , worn , Haggard , Rider Haggard , Sir Henry Rider Haggard