emaciation
Wasted, skeletal state
Emaciation is the state of being dangerously thin from lack of food or illness.
The word suggests visible wasting—bones showing through skin, muscle mass depleted: The rescued hostages showed signs of severe emaciation.
Unlike simple thinness, emaciation implies a pathological condition requiring medical attention.
Lean from deprivation
- skeletalOf or like bones
- cadaverousResembling the deceased
- haggardExhausted in appearance
- bonyThin, with protruding skeleton
scrawny · wasted · drawn · pinched · sunken · wizened · angular · withered
Severe food shortage
- malnutritionDisease from dietary inadequacy
- undernourishmentInsufficient dietary intake
- underfedLacking adequate food
- malnourishedLacking proper nutrition
starving · starved · famished · hunger · deprivation · inanition · scarcity · dearth
Severe illness-induced wasting
- consumptionUsing up of resources
- atrophyWasting from disuse
- deteriorationProcess of declining quality
- declineDecrease or refuse
withering · shriveling · depletion · debilitation · enfeeblement · weakening
Deficiency in force
- debilityImpaired strength or vitality
- feeblenessLack of strength
- fragilityEase of breaking
- infirmityWeakness from illness or age
exhaustion · enervation · languor · asthenia · decrepitude · delicacy · vulnerability · sickliness
gaunt
Lean from deprivation
- skeletalOf or like bones
- cadaverousResembling the deceased
- haggardExhausted in appearance
bony · scrawny · wasted · drawn · pinched · sunken · wizened · angular · withered · shriveled
famine
Severe food shortage
- malnutritionDisease from dietary inadequacy
- undernourishmentInsufficient dietary intake
- underfedLacking adequate food
malnourished · starving · starved · famished · hunger · deprivation · inanition · scarcity · dearth · privation
cachexia
Severe illness-induced wasting
- consumptionUsing up of resources
- atrophyWasting from disuse
- deteriorationProcess of declining quality
decline · withering · shriveling · depletion · debilitation · enfeeblement · weakening
weakness
Deficiency in force
- debilityImpaired strength or vitality
- feeblenessLack of strength
- fragilityEase of breaking
infirmity · exhaustion · enervation · languor · asthenia · decrepitude · delicacy · vulnerability · sickliness · fatigue
- hungerhunger, hungry, starving, starvation, famished
- body disordersobesity, overweight, underweight, malnutrition, anorexia
- faminestarvation, mass starvation, hunger, famine victims, crop failure
- wastingsquandering, frittering, splurging, overspending, misusing
- wasting diseasescachexia, wasting syndrome, consumption, phthisis, failure to thrive
- malnutritionmalnutrition, malnourished, undernourished, undernourishment, starvation
emaciationobesity
Excess body fat condition
corpulence · plumpness · stoutness · fatness · heaviness
emaciationrobustness
Resistance to failure
nourishment · plumpness · healthiness · vitality · heartiness