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haggard

UK/ˈhæɡ.əd/US/ˈhæɡ.ɚd/

haggard adjective: looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition.

Adjective

haggard (comparative more haggard, superlative most haggard)

  1. Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition
    • Pale and haggard faces.
    • A gradual descent into a haggard and feeble state.
  2. Wild or untamed
    • a haggard or refractory hawk

Noun (1)

haggard (plural haggards)

  1. A hunting bird captured as an adult.
    • No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful;
      I know her spirits are as coy and wild
      As haggards of the rock.1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    • HAGGARDS may be trapped in this country but with the square-net, or the bow-net, but in either case great difficulty is experienced1856, John Henry Walsh, Manual of British Rural Sports
  2. A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
  3. (obsolete) A fierce, intractable creature.
    • I have loved this proud disdainful haggard.c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  4. (obsolete) A hag.
    • In a dark Grott the baleful Haggard lay,
      Breathing black Vengeance, and infecting Day1699, Samuel Garth, The Dispensary

Noun (2)

haggard (plural haggards)

  1. (Ireland, Scotland, dialectal, Isle of Man) A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.
    • He tuk a slew [swerve] round the haggard http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/am1924/pt_s.htm
    • "Well, you see, Thady, we'd a powerful great harvist uv it, you know, this year, an' the min all worked like jewels, as they are; an' the masther was in great sperits, an' he promis'd he'd give us all a grand dinner whin the dhrawin'-in was over, an' the corn all safe in the haggard.1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 514

Proper noun capitalized: Haggard

Haggard (plural Haggards)

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Gray County, Kansas, United States.

haggard meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

haggard in Tamil

பருந்து, இராசாளி, வல்லுறு, வேட்டைக்குப் பழக்கப்படாத, பயிற்றுவிக்கப்படாத, அருவருப்புத் தோற்றம் உடைய

haggard in Urdu

بدحال, دبلا, خستہ حال, لاغر, وحشت زدہ

haggard in Bengali

ক্লান্ত ও বিমর্ষ, শীর্ণকায়

haggard in Malayalam

രൂക്ഷ, ക്ഷീണിച്ച, എല്ലുംതോലുമായ
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haggard in Kannada
ಕಂಗೆಟ್ಟ, ಕಂಗಾಲಾದ, ಬಡಕಲಾಗಿರುವ, ಅತ್ಯಂತ ಬಳಲಿದ

Examples of haggard in a sentence

  • The years of hardship made her look somewhat haggard.
  • Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look.1685, John Dryden, The Despairing Lover:
  • I looked at the morning / After being up all night / I looked at my haggard face in the bathroom light / I looked out the window / And I saw that ragged soul take flight1976, Joni Mitchell, “Black Crow”, in Hejira:

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Synonyms of haggard

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Forms of haggard

Adjective
comparativemore haggard
superlativemost haggard
Noun
pluralhaggards
Proper noun
pluralHaggards
alternative formHaggart

Origin of haggard

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”).

Words formed from haggard

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Questions about haggard

What does haggard mean?
Haggard means looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition.
What is haggard in Tamil?
Haggard in Tamil is பருந்து, இராசாளி, வல்லுறு. See Haggard meaning in Tamil.
How do you use haggard in a sentence?
The years of hardship made her look somewhat haggard.
What part of speech is haggard?
Haggard can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce haggard?
Haggard is pronounced /ˈhæɡ.əd/ (UK).

Words near haggard in the dictionary

  1. Haggadistic
  2. Haggadists
  3. Haggadot
  4. Haggadoth
  5. Haggai
  6. haggard
  7. Haggardian
  8. haggardly
  9. haggardness
  10. haggards
  11. haggart

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Adapted from Wiktionary: haggard (page history and authors); Haggard (page history and authors); haggard (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); haggard (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Haggard (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); haggard (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); haggard (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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