Comparative form of gaunt; more thin, hollow-looking, or barren in appearance.
Gaunt with the comparative suffix -er. Gaunt likely derives from Old Norse gauntr, and the -er suffix is a fundamental English method for comparing adjectives.
Comparative adjectives like 'gaunter' show how English's Germanic roots gave us this simple -er/-est system, while Romance languages took a different path with words like 'more' and 'most.'
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