Word Meanings - GAUNTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In a gaunt manner; meagerly.
Related words: (words related to GAUNTLY)
- GAUNTLETTED
Wearing a gauntlet. - MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - MANNERISM
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural - GAUNTREE; GAUNTRY
A scaffolding or frame carrying a crane or other structure. Knight. (more info) 1. A frame for supporting barrels in a cellar or elsewhere. Sir W. Scott. - GAUNT
Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim. "The gaunt mastiff." Pope. A mysterious but visible pestilence, striding gaunt and fleshless across our land. Nichols. - GAUNTLY
In a gaunt manner; meagerly. - MANNERLINESS
The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale. - MEAGERLY; MEAGRELY
Poorly; thinly. - MANNERED
1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style - MANNER
manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner - MANNERCHOR
A German men's chorus or singing club. - MANNERLY
Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak. - GAUNTLET
See GANTLET - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - ARMGAUNT
With gaunt or slender legs. "An armgaunt steed." Shak. Note: This word is peculiar to Shakespeare. Its meaning has not yet been satisfactorily explained. - OVERMANNER
In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif. - ILL-MANNERED
Impolite; rude. - WELL-MANNERED
Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.