poor appetite
Not wanting food
Poor appetite is a reduced desire to eat, whether from illness, stress, medication, or emotional disturbance.
The phrase appears frequently in medical contexts as a symptom: The patient reported fatigue, nausea, and poor appetite.
Unlike loss of appetite, which suggests something more sudden or complete, poor appetite implies a persistent but partial diminishment.
- anorexiaEating disorder, self-starvation
- nauseaPre-vomiting stomach discomfort
- upset stomachGastrointestinal distress
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
not hungry · queasy · food aversion · listless · thin · gaunt · wasting away · malnourished · weight loss · fatigue · illness · picking · picking at food · nibbling · stomach · hollow · weak · bland
- appetitehungry, hunger, starving, famished, ravenous
- anemia symptomsfatigue, weakness, pallor, pale skin, dizziness
- B vitamin deficiencypellagra, beriberi, thiamine deficiency, B12 deficiency, Korsakoff syndrome
- nursing problemslow milk supply, engorgement, mastitis, sore nipples, cracked nipples
- thiamine deficiencyberiberi, Korsakoff syndrome
- deficienciesdeficiency, deficit, lack, shortage, insufficiency
poor appetiteravenous
Extremely hungry, insatiable
famished · starving · hungry · gnawing hunger · peckish
poor appetiteovereating
Consuming beyond bodily needs
gluttony · binge eating · compulsive eating · food obsession
poor, poorly, poorer, poorest, poorness, impoverish, impoverished, impoverishment, poverty