| Main Entry: | underfed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | undernourished |
Synonyms: |
famished, hungry, ill-fed, malnourished, skinny, starved, starving, thin |
Antonyms: |
healthy, overweight, well-fed, well-nourished |
| Main Entry: | emaciated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | undernourished; thin |
Synonyms: |
anorexic, atrophied, attenuate, attenuated, bony, cadaverous, consumptive, famished, gaunt, haggard, lank, lean, like a bag of bones, meager, peaked, pinched, scrawny, skeletal, skeletonlike, skin-and-bones, skinny, starved, thin as rail, underfed, wasted, wizened |
Antonyms: |
fat, heavy, overnourished, overweight, plump |
| Main Entry: | meager |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very thin |
Synonyms: |
angular, bare, beanpole, beanstalk, bony, broomstick, emaciated, gangling, gangly, gaunt, hungry, lacking, lank, lanky, lean, lithe, little, narrow, rattleboned, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, skin and bones, skinny, slender, slim, spare, starved, stinted, stunted, tenuous, underfed, wanting, willowy, withered |
Antonyms: |
big, fat, full, large, wide |
| Main Entry: | puny |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | small, insignificant |
Synonyms: |
diminutive, feeble, fragile, frail, half-pint, inconsequential, inferior, infirm, little, measly, minor, niggling, nothing, paltry, peanut, peewee, petty, picayune, piddling, pint-sized, runt, shrimp, small time, small-fry, stunted, tiny, trifling, trivial, two-bit, unconsequential, underfed, undersized, undeveloped, unsound, unsubstantial, weak, weakly, wee, worthless, zero*, zilch |
Antonyms: |
big, giant, huge, large |
| Main Entry: | starving/starved |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deprived of food |
Synonyms: |
could eat a horse, craving, dehydrated, drawn, dying, emaciated, empty, faint, famished, haggard, hungering, hungry, malnourished, peaked, peckish, perishing, pinched, ravenous, skinny, thin, underfed, undernourished, weakened |
Antonyms: |
fed, full, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | wasted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | emaciated |
Synonyms: |
anorexic, atrophied, attenuated, bony, famished, gaunt, haggard, lank, lean, scrawny, shrivelled, skeletal, skin-and-bones, skinny, starved, thin, underfed, undernourished, withered |
| Main Entry: | starving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deprived |
Synonyms: |
craving, dehydrated, dog-hungry, drawn, dying, emaciated, empty, faint, famished, flying light, haggard, have munchies, hungering, hungry, malnourished, peaked, peaky, peckish, perishing, pinched, rattleboned, ravenous, skinny, starved, thin, underfed, undernourished, weakened |
Antonyms: |
full, satiated |
| Main Entry: | skeletal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wasted |
Synonyms: |
anorexic, atrophied, attenuated, bony, cadaverous, drawn, emaciated, famished, gaunt, haggard, lank, lean, scrawny, shrivelled, shrunken, skin and bones, skin-and-bones, skinny, starved, thin, underfed, undernourished, withered |