Standard Lemma guide

haggard

adj · name · noun · 12 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˈhæɡ.əd/
  • US: hăg-ərd'
  • US: /ˈhæɡ.ɚd/
  • Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -æɡə(ɹ)d
  • CMU ARPABET: HH AE1 G ER0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Pale and haggard faces.
  • A gradual descent into a haggard and feeble state.
  • The years of hardship made her look somewhat haggard.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: careworn, drawn, raddled, worn-out

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Wild or untamed

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • a haggard or refractory hawk

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

name

Meaning 3

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

name

Meaning 4

An unincorporated community in Gray County, Kansas, United States.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A hunting bird captured as an adult.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: falconry, hobbies, hunting, lifestyle

Examples

  • 1856, John Henry Walsh, Manual of British Rural Sports HAGGARDS may be trapped in this country but with the square-net, or the bow-net, but in either case great difficulty is experienced

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A young or untrained hawk or falcon.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: falconry, hobbies, hunting, lifestyle

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

A fierce, intractable creature.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

A hag.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Ireland, Scotland, dialectal

Qualifier: Isle of Man

Examples

  • He tuk a slew [swerve] round the haggard http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/am1924/pt_s.htm

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

adjective satellite

Meaning 10

very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • emaciated bony hands
  • a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys
  • eyes were haggard and cavernous
  • small pinched faces
  • kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, pinched, skeletal, wasted

Antonyms: none provided

11

adjective satellite

Meaning 11

showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering- Charles Dickens

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • looking careworn as she bent over her mending
  • her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness
  • that raddled but still noble face
  • shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: careworn, drawn, raddled, worn

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Rider Haggard, Sir Henry Rider Haggard

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: writer, author

History

Etymology

From Middle French 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 Old Norse heygarðr (“hay-yard”).

Across languages

Translations

82 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: измъчен (izmǎčen) — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Bulgarian: изнурен (iznuren) — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Chinese: 憔悴(qiáocuì)枯槁 (qiáocuì) — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Czech: ustaraný — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Czech: ztrápený — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Czech: vyčerpaný — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Czech: ztrhaný — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Dutch: afgetobd — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Dutch: uitgemergeld — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Estonian: kurnatud — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Finnish: riutunut — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Finnish: voipunut — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Finnish: sairaalloisen näköinen — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Finnish: kalvakka — looking exhausted and unwell
  • French: hagard — looking exhausted and unwell
  • German: abgespannt — looking exhausted and unwell
  • German: ausgezehrt — looking exhausted and unwell
  • German: abgezehrt — looking exhausted and unwell
  • German: hager — looking exhausted and unwell
  • German: mitgenommen — looking exhausted and unwell
  • German: verhärmt — looking exhausted and unwell
  • German: ausgemergelt — looking exhausted and unwell
  • German: abgehärmt — looking exhausted and unwell
  • German: gezeichnet — looking exhausted and unwell
  • German: fertig — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Italian: emaciato — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Italian: consunto — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Italian: macilento — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Italian: magro — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Italian: mingherlino — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Italian: smunto — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Italian: tutta pelle — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Japanese: やつれた (yatsureta) — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Korean: 수척한 (sucheokhan) — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Latin: ēnervis — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Latin: dēfatīgātus — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Māori: korotūangaanga — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Polish: wymizerowany — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Polish: wynędzniały — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Portuguese: abatido — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Rapa Nui: kavakava — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Romanian: epuizat — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Romanian: istovit — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Romanian: secătuit — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Romanian: obosit — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Russian: измождённый (izmoždjónnyj) — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Serbo-Croatian: оронуо — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Serbo-Croatian: бије̑дан — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Serbo-Croatian: бе̑дан — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Serbo-Croatian: oronuo — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Serbo-Croatian: bijȇdan — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Serbo-Croatian: bȇdan — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Spanish: consumido — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Spanish: macilento — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Spanish: trasojado — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Spanish: demacrado — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Spanish: ojeroso — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Spanish: desmejorado — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Swedish: härjad — looking exhausted and unwell
  • Czech: divoký — wild or untamed
  • Czech: nezvladatelný — wild or untamed
  • Dutch: ongetemd — wild or untamed
  • Dutch: onhandelbaar — wild or untamed
  • Estonian: metsik — wild or untamed
  • Finnish: hurja — wild or untamed
  • German: wild — wild or untamed
  • German: ungezähmt — wild or untamed
  • German: ungebändigt — wild or untamed
  • Italian: selvatico — wild or untamed
  • Italian: selvaggio — wild or untamed
  • Latin: ferus — wild or untamed
  • Polish: dzikie — wild or untamed
  • Polish: nieoswojone — wild or untamed
  • Portuguese: selvagem — wild or untamed
  • Romanian: sălbatic — wild or untamed
  • Romanian: nedomesticit — wild or untamed
  • Romanian: neîmblânzit — wild or untamed
  • Russian: неприручённый (nepriručónnyj) — wild or untamed
  • Russian: ди́кий (díkij) — wild or untamed
  • Serbo-Croatian: дѝвљӣ — wild or untamed
  • Serbo-Croatian: dìvljī — wild or untamed
  • Armenian: Հագգարդ — surname