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undernourished

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Main Entry: scrawny
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unhealthily thin

Synonyms:

angular, bony, gaunt, lank, lanky, lean, rawboned, scraggy, skeletal, skin-and-bones, skinny, spare, undernourished, underweight

Antonyms:

chubby, fat, healthy, plump
Main Entry: skinny
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very thin

Synonyms:

angular, bony, emaciated, gaunt, lank, lanky, lean, like a rail, malnourished, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, skeletal, skin-and-bone, slender, spare, twiggy, undernourished, underweight

Antonyms:

chubby, fat, heavy, large, overweight, plump, thick
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: thin
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fine, light, slender

Synonyms:

attenuate, attenuated, beanpole, beanstalk, bony, cadaverous, delicate, emaciated, ethereal, featherweight, fragile, gangling, gangly, gaunt, haggard, lank, lanky, lean, lightweight, meager, narrow, peaked, pinched, pole, puny, rangy, rarefied, rawboned, reedy, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shadow, shriveled, skeletal, skinny, slight, slim, slinky, small, spare, spindly, stalky, starved, stick*, stilt, subtle, threadlike, twiggy, twiglike, undernourished, underweight, wan, wasted, wizened

Antonyms:

dense, fat, heavy, inflated, obese, thick
Main Entry: underweight
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: thin

Synonyms:

angular, anorectic, bony, gangly, malnourished, puny, scrawny, shadow, skeleton, skin and bones, skinny, starved, stringbean, undernourished, undersized

Antonyms:

chubby, fat, overweight, plump, thick
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: starved
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hungry

Synonyms:

anorexic, emaciated, famished, macerated, malnourished, ravenous, undernourished

Antonyms:

full, well fed
Main Entry: lank
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: thin

Synonyms:

all skin and bones, angular, attenuate, attenuated, beanpole, beanstalk, bony, cadaverous, delicate, emaciated, ethereal, featherweight, fleshless, fragile, gangling, gangly, gaunt, haggard, lanky, lean, lightweight, meager, narrow, peaked, pinched, pole, puny, rangy, rarefied, rawboned, reedy, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shadow, shriveled, skeletal, skinny, slender, slight, slim, slinky, small, spare, spindly, stalky, starved, stick*, stilt, subtle, thin as a rail, threadlike, twiggy, twiglike, undernourished, underweight, wan, wasted*, weedy, wizened
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
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