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The definition of haggard is someone or something that looks worn, tired, unkept and/or unwell.
(adjective)- An example of haggard is a sick person with unwashed hair and rumpled clothes.
- An example of haggard is an old ratty blanket.
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See haggard in Webster's New World College Dictionary
adjective
- Falconry designating a hawk captured after reaching maturity
- untamed; unruly; wild
- wild-eyed
- having a wild, wasted, worn look, as from sleeplessness, grief, or illness; gaunt; drawn
Origin: MFr hagard, untamed, untamed hawk
noun
Falconry a haggard hawk
Related Forms:
- haggardly adverb
- haggardness noun
Haggard,
Sir H(enry) Rider 1856-1925; Eng. novelist
See haggard in American Heritage Dictionary 4
adjective
- a. Appearing worn and exhausted; gaunt.b. Wild or distraught in appearance.
- Wild and intractable. Used of a hawk in falconry.
An adult hawk captured for training.
Origin:
Origin: French hagard, wild
Origin: , from Old French, wild hawk, raptor
Origin: , perhaps of Germanic origin
.Related Forms:
- hagˈgard·ly adverb
- hagˈgard·ness noun
British writer whose romantic adventure novels include King Solomon's Mines (1885).
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