haggard

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: Hag=gard

CIDE DICTIONARY

haggard, a. [F. hagard; of German origin, and prop. meaning, of the hegde or woods, wild, untamed. See Hedge, 1st Haw, and -ard.].

•  Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look."  [1913 Webster]

haggard, n. [See Haggard, a.].

•  A young or untrained hawk or falcon.  [1913 Webster]
•  A fierce, intractable creature.  [1913 Webster]

  "I have loved this proud disdainful haggard."  [1913 Webster]
•  A hag.  Garth.  [1913 Webster]

haggard, n. [See 1st Haw, Hedge, and Yard an inclosed space.].

 A stackyard.  Swift.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

haggard, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 looking exhausted and distraught, esp. from fatigue, worry, privation, etc.
2 (of a hawk) caught and trained as an adult.
--n. a haggard hawk.

Derivative

haggardly adv. haggardness n.

Etymology

F hagard, of uncert. orig.: later infl. by HAG(1)

THESAURUS

haggard

abandoned, achromatic, achromic, amok, anemic, angular, ashen, ashy, attenuated, bellowing, berserk, bigoted, bled white, bloodless, blue, cadaverous, careworn, carried away, chloranemic, colorless, corpselike, dead, deadly, deadly pale, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, delirious, demoniac, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, distracted, drawn, dull, ecstatic, eerie, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, enraptured, etiolated, exhausted, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, extravagant, extreme, extremist, faded, fagged, faint, fallow, fanatic, fatigued, feral, ferocious, fierce, flat, frantic, frenzied, fulminating, furious, gaunt, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, gray, grisly, gruesome, hog-wild, hollow-eyed, howling, hueless, hypochromic, hysterical, in a transport, in hysterics, inordinate, intoxicated, irrational, jejune, lackluster, lank, leaden, lean, livid, lurid, lusterless, macabre, mad, madding, maniac, marantic, marasmic, mat, mealy, mortuary, muddy, neutral, orgasmic, orgiastic, overenthusiastic, overreligious, overzealous, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, peaked, peaky, perfervid, pinched, played out, poor, possessed, puny, rabid, raging, ramping, ranting, ravaged, raving, ravished, roaring, run-down, running mad, sallow, scraggy, scrawny, shriveled, shrunken, sickly, skeletal, skinny, spare, spent, starved, starveling, storming, tabetic, tabid, tallow-faced, tired, tired-eyed, tired-faced, tired-looking, toneless, transported, ultrazealous, uncanny, uncolored, uncontrollable, underfed, undernourished, unearthly, unreasonable, violent, wan, washed-out, wasted, waxen, weak, wearied, weary, weary-looking, weazeny, weird, whey-faced, white, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking, withered, wizened, worn, worn-down, wraithlike, zealotic

ROGET THESAURUS

haggard

Fatigue

N fatigue, weariness, yawning, drowsiness, lassitude, tiredness, fatigation, exhaustion, sweat, dyspnoea, anhelation, shortness of breath, faintness, collapse, prostration, swoon, fainting, deliquium, syncope, lipothymy, goneness, fatigued, tired, weary, drowsy, drooping, haggard, toilworn, wayworn:, footsore, surbated, weather-beaten, faint, done up, used up, knocked up, bushed, exhausted, prostrate, spent, overtired, overspent, overfatigued, unrefreshed, unrestored, worn, worn out, battered, shattered, pulled down, seedy, altered, breathless, windless, short of breath, out of breath, short of wind, blown, puffing and blowing, short-breathed, anhelose, broken winded, short-winded, dyspnaeal, dyspnaeic, ready to drop, all in, more dead than alive, dog-weary, walked off one's legs, tired to death, on one's last legs, played out, hors de combat, fatiguing, tiresome, irksome, wearisome, weary, trying.

Excitation

N excitation of feeling, mental excitement, suscitation, galvanism, stimulation, piquance, piquancy, provocation, inspiration, calling forth, infection, animation, agitation, perturbation, subjugation, fascination, intoxication, enravishment, entrancement, pressure, tension, high pressure, unction, impressiveness, trail of temper, casus belli, irritation, passion, thrill, repression of feeling, sensationalism, yellow journalism, excited, wrought up, up the qui vive, astir, sparkling, in a quiver, in a fever, in a ferment, in a blaze, in a state of excitement, in hysterics, black in the face, overwrought, tense, taught, on a razor's edge, hot, red-hot, flushed, feverish, all of a twitter, in a pucker, with quivering lips, with tears in one's eyes, flaming, boiling over, ebullient, seething, foaming at the mouth, fuming, raging, carried away by passion, wild, raving, frantic, mad, distracted, beside oneself, out of one's wits, ready to burst, bouleverse, demoniacal, lost, eperdu, tempest-tossed, haggard, ready to sink, stung to the quick, up, on one's high ropes, exciting, absorbing, riveting, distracting, impressive, warm, glowing, fervid, swelling, imposing, spirit-stirring, thrilling, high-wrought, soul-stirring, soul-subduing, heart-stirring, heart- swelling, heart-thrilling, agonizing, telling, sensational, hysterical, overpowering, overwhelming, more than flesh and blood can bear, yellow, piquant, spicy, appetizing, provocative, provoquant, tantalizing, eager to go, anxious to go, chafing at the bit, till one is black in the face, the heart beating high, the heart going pitapat, the heart leaping into one's mouth, the blood being up, the blood boiling in one's veins, the eye glistening, the eyes in a fine frenzy rolling, the head turned, when the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Ugliness

N ugliness, deformity, inelegance, acomia, disfigurement, want of symmetry, inconcinnity, distortion, squalor, forbidding countenance, vinegar aspect, hanging look, wry face, spretae injuria formae, eyesore, object, witch, hag, figure, sight, fright, monster, dog, woofer, pig, octopus, specter, scarecrow, harridan, satyr, toad, monkey, baboon, Caliban, Aesop, monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen adempt, ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey, plain, bald (unadorned), homely, ordinary, unornamental, inartistic, unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely, unshapely, sightless, seemless, not fit to be seen, unbeauteous, unbeautiful, beautiless, semibeautiful, shapeless, misshapen, misproportioned, monstrous, gaunt, dumpy, curtailed of its fair proportions, ill-made, ill- shaped, ill-proportioned, crooked, hard featured, hard visaged, ill-favored, hard-favored, evil-favored, ill-looking, unprepossessing, unattractive, uninviting, unpleasing, graceless, inelegant, ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff, rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety, gawky, lumping, lumpish, lumbering, hulky, hulking, unwieldy, squalid, haggard, grim, grim faced, grim visaged, grisly, ghastly, ghost like, death like, cadaverous, grewsome, gruesome, frightful, hideous, odious, uncanny, forbidding, repellant, repulsive, repugnant, grotesque, bizarre, grody, grody to the max, horrid, horrible, shocking, foul, dingy, gaudy, disfigured, discolored.

Insanity

N insanity, disordered reason, disordered intellect, diseased mind, unsound mind, abnormal mind, derangement, unsoundness, psychosis, neurosis, cognitive disorder, affective disorder, insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, rabies, furor, mental alienation, aberration, paranoia, schizophrenia, dementation, dementia, demency, phrenitis, phrensy, frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium, calenture of the brain, delusion, hallucination, lycanthropy, brain storm, vertigo, dizziness, swimming, sunstroke, coup de soleil, siriasis, fanaticism, infatuation, craze, oddity, eccentricity, twist, monomania (caprice), kleptodipsomania, hypochondriasis, melancholia, depression, clinical depression, severe depression, hysteria, amentia, screw loose, tile loose, slate loose, bee in one's bonnet, rats in the upper story, dotage, insane, mad, lunatic, loony, crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis, not right, cracked, touched, bereft of reason, all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind, insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft, phrenzied, frenzied, frenetic, possessed, possessed with a devil, deranged, maddened, moonstruck, shatterpated, mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained, touched, tetched, off one's head, maniacal, delirious, lightheaded, incoherent, rambling, doting, wandering, frantic, raving, stark staring mad, stark raving mad, wild-eyed, berserk, delusional, hallucinatory, corybantic, dithyrambic, rabid, giddy, vertiginous, wild, haggard, mazed, flighty, distracted, distraught, depressed, agitated, hyped up, bewildered, mad as a March hare, mad as a hatter, of unsound mind, touched in one's head, wrong in one's head, not right in one's head, not in one's right mind, not right in one's wits, upper story, out of one's mind, out of one's wits, out of one's skull, far gone, out of one's senses, out of one's wits, not in one's right mind, fanatical, infatuated, odd, eccentric, hypped, hyppish, spaced out, imbecile, silly, like one possessed, the mind having lost its balance, the reason under a cloud, tet exaltee, tet montee, ira furor brevis est, omnes stultos insanire.