1. extremely thin and bony, especially from hunger, illness, or age
2. bleak and forbidding in appearance

Examples

• The prisoner looked gaunt after months of poor nutrition.
• His gaunt face showed the effects of his long illness.
• The gaunt landscape stretched endlessly before them.
• She had grown gaunt from worry and lack of sleep.
• The gaunt trees stood bare against the winter sky.
• The old man’s gaunt frame was bent with age.
• The gaunt mountains rose starkly from the desert floor.