haggard

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   looking exhausted and unwell, as from fatigue or suffering

   After the sleepless week he looked pale and haggard.

From Middle French hagard ('untamed, wild'), originally a falconry term for a wild adult hawk caught after maturity; of uncertain origin, perhaps Germanic and related to hedge. Sense 'gaunt, wild-looking' arose later.

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