| Main Entry: | starvation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hunger |
Synonyms: |
deprivation, famine, inanition, malnutrition, need, want |
| Main Entry: | diet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abstinence from food |
Synonyms: |
dietary, fast, nutritional therapy, regime, regimen, restriction, starvation, weight-reduction plan |
Antonyms: |
indulgence |
| Main Entry: | famine |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hunger |
Synonyms: |
dearth, destitution, drought, misery, paucity, poverty, scarcity, starvation, want |
Antonyms: |
feast, plenty, stores, supply |
| Main Entry: | hunger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appetite for food, other desire |
Synonyms: |
a stomach for, ache, appetence, appetency, appetition, big eyes, bottomless pit, craving, desire, emptiness, esurience, eyes for, famine, famishment, gluttony, greed, greediness, hungriness, longing, lust, mania, munchies, ravenousness, starvation, sweet tooth, vacancy, void, voracity, want, yearning, yen |
Antonyms: |
satiation, satisfaction |
| Main Entry: | malnutrition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poor nutrition |
Synonyms: |
anorexia nervosa, bulimia, dietary deficiency, hunger, malnourishment, starvation, undernourishment |
| Main Entry: | poverty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | want; extreme need, often financial |
Synonyms: |
abjection, aridity, bankruptcy, barrenness, beggary, dearth, debt, deficiency, deficit, depletion, destitution, difficulty, distress, emptiness, exiguity, famine, hardship, impecuniousness, impoverishment, inadequacy, indigence, insolvency, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, necessitousness, necessity, pass, paucity, pauperism, pennilessness, penury, pinch, poorness, privation, reduction, scarcity, shortage, starvation, straits, underdevelopment, vacancy |
Antonyms: |
abundance, affluence, luxury, richness, wealth |
| Main Entry: | squalor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | filth, poverty |
Synonyms: |
decay, destitution, dirtiness, foulness, grunginess, impoverishment, indigence, poorness, seediness, starvation, wretchedness |
| Main Entry: | emaciation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gauntness |
Synonyms: |
anorexia, atrophy, attenuation, boniness, consumption, haggardness, malnutrition, marasmus, skinniness, starvation, tabes, thinness, undernourishment, wasting, wasting away, withering |
| Main Entry: | griminess |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dirtiness |
Synonyms: |
decay, destitution, filth, filthiness, foulness, grubbiness, grunginess, impoverishment, indigence, poorness, seediness, smuttiness, squalor, starvation, uncleanliness, uncleanness, wretchedness |
| Main Entry: | grubbiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dirtiness |
Synonyms: |
decay, destitution, filth, filthiness, foulness, griminess, grunginess, impoverishment, indigence, poorness, seediness, smuttiness, squalor, starvation, uncleanliness, uncleanness, wretchedness |