starved
Craving any morsel
Starved is the past and participle of the verb starve.
Starved usually characterizes a person who is extremely hungry, either in the literal sense, as in the children are starved, or in a figurative sense, where the thing craved is not food: he’s starved for attention.
If you are starved of something, that thing is not available or accessible to you: The country is starved of hard currency.
Lacking adequate food
- undernourishedInsufficiently nourished
- gauntLean from deprivation
- wastedUsed without good result
- skeletalOf or like bones
scrawny · hunger · destitute · impoverished · neglected · wanting · lacking · deficient
Wanting to eat
- thirstingYearning intensely for
- cravingPowerful urge to have
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- achingExperiencing dull pain
desperate · impatient · yearning · pining · desirous · keen · avid · voracious
Lean from deprivation
- skeletalOf or like bones
- wastedUsed without good result
- bonyThin, with protruding skeleton
- thinSmall in diameter
scrawny · haggard · cadaverous · pinched · sunken · drawn · wizened · shriveled
Extremely hungry, insatiable
- peckishMildly hungry
- emptyHolding nothing inside
- gnawingPersistent biting action
- rumblingLow rolling sound
faint · lightheaded · weak · appetite · craving · nourishment · sustenance · fasting
underfed
Lacking adequate food
- undernourishedInsufficiently nourished
- gauntLean from deprivation
- wastedUsed without good result
skeletal · scrawny · hunger · destitute · impoverished · neglected · wanting · lacking · deficient · deprived
hungry
Wanting to eat
aching · desperate · impatient · yearning · pining · desirous · keen · avid · voracious · greedy
gaunt
Lean from deprivation
thin · scrawny · haggard · cadaverous · pinched · sunken · drawn · wizened · shriveled · withered
ravenous
Extremely hungry, insatiable
rumbling · faint · lightheaded · weak · appetite · craving · nourishment · sustenance · fasting · belly
- hungerhunger, hungry, ravenous, hunger pangs, appetite
- skinnythin, slim, slender, lean, skinny
- appetitehungry, hunger, ravenous, cravings, craving
- wrongedabused, mistreated, victimized, exploited, oppressed
- fullnessfull, empty, half-full, filled, half-empty
- scarcityscarcity, scarce, shortage, scant, scanty
- starving artistPoor creative professional
- starved to deathDied from lack of food
- starvation dietSevere caloric deprivation regimen
- starvation wagesPay too low to live on
- mass starvationWidespread fatal hunger
- starvation modeMetabolic adaptation to scarcity