Gaunts (2024)

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1. : being thin and bony (as from hunger or suffering) 2. : grim and forbidding : barren, desolate. gaunt, leafless trees.

1. : being thin and bony (as from hunger or suffering) 2. : grim and forbidding : barren, desolate. gaunt, leafless trees.

There, we learn that the House of Gaunt is a descendant family of Salazar Slytherin. Only three members of the Gaunt family are ever mentioned: Morfin Gaunt, who apparently chooses to speak only Parseltongue; Marvolo Gaunt, and Merope Gaunt, the witch who will later become the mother of Tom Marvolo Riddle.

A gaunt face refers to a face that appears thin and bony. The term is usually used to describe the face of someone who looks sick, malnourished, or unhealthy. It generally isn't used to describe a naturally thin but healthy-looking face. As you age, your face tends to lose fat.

Some common synonyms of gaunt are lanky, lank, lean, rawboned, scrawny, skinny, and spare. While all these words mean "thin because of an absence of excess flesh," gaunt implies marked thinness or emaciation as from overwork or suffering.

extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated.

The connotation of gaunt is negative. It brings to mind an image of someone so thin they look sick. You may think of someone with sunken cheekbones or easily visible ribs.

Rowling uses several chapters as exposition to establish Voldemort's backstory. In a series of flashbacks, using the pensieve as a plot device, she reveals that Voldemort was the son of the witch Merope Gaunt and a Muggle called Tom Riddle.

Upon the death of Morfin Gaunt (heir to the House of Gaunt) the male line of the Gaunt family ended. The last name Gaunt became extinct and died out. The female line (along with the Slytherin family and Riddle family) continued under Tom Marvolo Riddle, who would later be known as Voldemort.

In fact, it's highly likely that Ominis Gaunt is Voldemort's great-uncle in Hogwarts Legacy. One of Ominis' older siblings, who tortured him with Crucio (an available spell in-game) is thought to be Marvolo Gaunt, who eventually had two children. His daughter, Merope Gaunt, went on to marry Tom Riddle Sr.

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He now has a great body but looks gaunt. He also looks worryingly gaunt and grey in the face. His face was gaunt and covered in soot from the powder. He just looked really thin and gaunt.

(Of a person or a part of the body) extremely thin, very lean; emaciated; cf. skeletal, adj.

The adjective emaciated evolved from the Latin emaciatus, meaning to “make lean, waste away.” An emaciated person or animal isn't just thin. They're bony, gaunt, and most likely undernourished, often from illness.

“Emaciated.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emaciated.

The correct answer is option 1) i.e. plump. gaunt: (of a person) lean and haggard. plump: having a full rounded shape, fat, chubby.

1. adjective. If someone looks gaunt, they look very thin, usually because they have been very ill or worried. Looking gaunt and tired, he denied there was anything to worry about. Synonyms: thin, lean, skinny, skeletal More Synonyms of gaunt.

very thin, especially because of sickness or hunger: Her face was gaunt and grey.

Gaunt means extremely thin.

a person or thing of unusually great size, power, importance, etc.; major figure; legend: a giant in her field; an intellectual giant.

Once a very wealthy family, the Gaunt family had squandered much of their gold early due to the Gaunt family's love for grandeur and mental instability, leaving them with very little inheritances for the later generations.