Haggard Definition

hăgərd
adjective
Designating a hawk captured after reaching maturity.
Webster's New World
Exhausted or distraught and often gaunt in appearance.
American Heritage
Untamed; unruly; wild.
Webster's New World
Wild-eyed.
Webster's New World
Having a wild, wasted, worn look, as from sleeplessness, grief, or illness; gaunt; drawn.
Webster's New World
Antonyms:
noun
An adult hawk captured for training.
American Heritage
A haggard hawk.
Webster's New World

(dialect, Manx, Ireland) A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.

"He tuk a slew [swerve] round the haggard"
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • Sir Henry Rider Haggard
  • Rider Haggard

Other Word Forms of Haggard

Noun

Singular:
haggard
Plural:
haggards

Origin of Haggard

  • From Old French faulcon hagard (“wild falcon”) (> French hagard (“dazed”)), from Middle High German hag (“coppice”) (> archaic German Hag (“hedge, grove”)). Akin to Frankish hagia (> French haie (“hedge”))

    From Wiktionary

  • French hagard wild from Old French wild hawk, raptor perhaps of Germanic origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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