HAGGARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Haggard mean? 

• HAGGARD (noun)
  The noun HAGGARD has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: HAGGARD used as a noun is very rare.

• HAGGARD (adjective)
  The adjective HAGGARD has 2 senses:

1. showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering

2. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

  Familiarity information: HAGGARD used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAGGARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Haggard; Rider Haggard; Sir Henry Rider Haggard

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

• HAGGARD (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering

Synonyms:

careworn; drawn; haggard; raddled; worn

Context example:

shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face

Similar:

tired (depleted of strength or energy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

Synonyms:

cadaverous; emaciated; gaunt; haggard; pinched; skeletal; wasted

Context example:

kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration

Similar:

lean; thin (lacking excess flesh)

 Context examples 

Johnson looked at me, and I could see that his face was worn and haggard.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

To-day he is a drawn, haggard old man, whose white hair matches well with the hollow burning eyes and grief-written lines of his face.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and unkempt, staring out at me.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Suddenly he sat up with a rigid intentness upon his haggard face.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Well, we may save the police some little trouble in that direction,” said Holmes, glancing at the haggard figure huddled up by the window.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My haggard and wild appearance awoke intense alarm, but I answered no question, scarcely did I speak.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

My uncle was evidently struck by the haggard look upon the other’s face.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His haggard face smote her to the heart again.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I saw her haggard, listening face distinctly.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His face was haggard with anxiety.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)