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Definitions for Haggard

[1] having a gaunt, wasted, or exhausted appearance, as from prolonged suffering, exertion, or anxiety; worn: the haggard faces of the tired troops.
[2] wild; wild-looking: haggard eyes.
[3] Falconry . (especially of a hawk caught after it has attained adult plumage) untamed.
[4] Falconry . a wild or untamed hawk caught after it has assumed adult plumage.
[5] (Sir) H(enry) Rider, 1856–1925, English novelist.
[6] careworn or gaunt, as from lack of sleep, anxiety, or starvation
[7] wild or unruly
[8] (of a hawk) having reached maturity in the wild before being caught
[9] falconry a hawk that has reached maturity before being caught Compare eyas, passage hawk
[10] (in Ireland and the Isle of Man) an enclosure beside a farmhouse in which crops are stored
[11] Sir (Henry ) Rider . 1856–1925, British author of romantic adventure stories, including King Solomon's Mines (1885)

Words related to Haggard

spare, skinny, lean, pale, wan, ashen, drawn, emaciated, exhausted, faded, fatigued, gaunt, ghastly, pallid, scrawny, shrunken, thin, tired, wasted, weak

Words nearby Haggard

hagfish, haggada, haggadah, haggadist, haggai, haggard, hagged, haggis, haggle, hagia, hagia sophia, cathedral of

Origin of Haggard

1560–70; orig., wild female hawk. See hag1, -ard

Other words from Haggard

hag·gard·ly , adverb
hag·gard·ness , noun

Word origin for Haggard

C16: related to Old Norse heygarthr, from hey hay + garthr yard

Synonyms for Haggard

lean, pale, skinny, spare, wan, ashen, careworn, drawn, emaciated, exhausted, faded, fagged, fatigued, fretted, gaunt, ghastly, lank, pallid, pinched, scraggy, scrawny, shrunken, starved, thin, tired, wasted, weak, wearied, worn-down, wrinkled