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starving - 11 thesaurus results
Main Entry: starving
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: deprived
Synonyms: craving, drawn, dying, emaciated, empty, faint, famished, haggard, hungry, peaked, ravenous, skinny, starved, thin, underfed, weakened, dehydrated, dog-hungry, flying light, have munchies, hungering, malnourished, peaky, peckish, perishing, pinched, rattleboned, undernourished
Antonyms: full, satiated
Main Entry: starving/starved
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: deprived of food
Synonyms: craving, drawn, dying, emaciated, empty, faint, famished, haggard, hungry, peaked, ravenous, skinny, thin, underfed, weakened, could eat a horse, dehydrated, hungering, malnourished, peckish, perishing, pinched, undernourished
Antonyms: full, satisfied, fed
Main Entry: gluttonous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: voracious
Synonyms: covetous, devouring, greedy, gross, insatiable, omnivorous, prodigious, rapacious, ravenous, starved, starving, edacious, gorging, gourmandizing, hoggish, never full, piggish, piggy, ravening, sating, unquenchable, wolfish
Main Entry: ravenous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very hungry; desirous
Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, devouring, empty, famished, ferocious, gluttonous, grasping, greedy, insatiable, omnivorous, predatory, rapacious, starved, starving, voracious, could eat a horse, edacious, insatiate, ravening, starved to death, wolfish
Antonyms: full, satisfied
Main Entry: voracious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very hungry, greedy
Synonyms: avid, covetous, devouring, empty, gluttonous, grasping, gross, insatiable, omnivorous, prodigious, rapacious, ravenous, starved, starving, uncontrolled, dog-hungry, edacious, gorging, piggy, ravening, sating, starved to death, unquenchable
Antonyms: satisfied, quenched
Main Entry: underfed
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: undernourished
Synonyms: famished, hungry, skinny, starved, starving, thin, ill-fed, malnourished
Antonyms: healthy, overweight, well-fed, well-nourished
Main Entry: empty
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hungry
Synonyms: famished, ravenous, starving, unfilled, unfed
Antonyms: filled, full, satisfied, sated
Main Entry: abstain
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: hold back from doing
Synonyms: abjure, abnegate, avoid, cease, constrain, curb, decline, deny oneself, do without, eschew, evade, fast, fence-sit, forbear, forgo, give the go by, give up, go on the wagon, keep from, pass, pass up, quit, refrain, refuse, renounce, shun, sit on one's hands, sit on the fence, sit out, spurn, starve, stop, take the cure, take the pledge, withhold
Antonyms: indulge, use
Main Entry: diet
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: abstain from food
Synonyms: fall off, fast, go without, reduce, slim, count calories, eat sparingly, lose weight, skinny down, slim down, starve, tighten belt, watch weight
Antonyms: gorge, indulge
Main Entry: fast
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: go without food
Synonyms: abstain, diet, forbear, refrain, deny oneself, famish, go hungry, not eat, starve
Antonyms: eat, glut, gorge, stuff
Main Entry: want
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: lack, need
Synonyms: call for, demand, miss, require, be deficient, be deprived of, be found wanting, be insufficient, be poor, be short of, be without, fall short in, have need of, stand in need of, starve
Notes: wont is a custom, especially habitual; want is a desire or need
Antonyms: have
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