Haggard vs Lethargic - What's the difference?
haggard | lethargic |
Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition
* Dryden
Wild or untamed
(dialect, Isle of Mann, Ireland) A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.
(falconry) A hunting bird captured as an adult.
* 1599 ,
*:No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful;
*:I know her spirits are as coy and wild
*:As haggards of the rock.
(falconry) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
(obsolete) A fierce, intractable creature.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A hag.
sluggish, slow
* {{quote-book
, year=1960
, author=
, title=(Jeeves in the Offing)
, section=chapter VII
, passage=[That cat] hasn't caught a mouse since he was a slip of a kitten. Except when eating, he does nothing but sleep. Lethargic is the word that springs to the lips. If you cast an eye on him, you will see that he's asleep now.}}
indifferent, apathetic
As adjectives the difference between haggard and lethargic
is that haggard is looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition while lethargic is sluggish, slow.As a noun haggard
is (dialect|isle of mann|ireland) a stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.haggard
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look.
- Pale and haggard faces.
- A gradual descent into a haggard and feeble state.
- The years of hardship made her look somewhat haggard .
- a haggard or refractory hawk
Derived terms
* haggardly * haggardnessNoun
(en noun)- "He tuk a slew [swerve] round the haggard" [http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/am1924/pt_s.htm]
- A "haggard" is a bird captured as an adult and therefore of unknown age; often, the law prohibits capturing birds of mating age.
Falconry Pro
- I have loved this proud disdainful haggard .
- (Garth)