starvin
Need food badly
Starvin is an informal spelling of starving, dropping the final g to reflect casual pronunciation.
It appears in text messages, social media, and dialogue representing colloquial speech: I'm starvin, let's get food.
The spelling signals informality rather than any difference in meaning from the standard form.
Severe food shortage
- malnutritionDisease from dietary inadequacy
- undernourishmentInsufficient dietary intake
- emaciationExtreme bodily thinness
- malnourishedLacking proper nutrition
underfed · gaunt · wasting · skeletal · impoverished · destitute · scarcity · poverty
Intensely, painfully hungry
- ravenousExtremely hungry, insatiable
- hangryIrritable due to appetite
- peckishMildly hungry
- cravingPowerful urge to have
wolfish · voracious · snackish · empty · gutted · gasping · parched · hankering
Driven by urgent need
- dyingCeasing to live
- immediateHappening without delay
- pressingRequiring immediate attention
- direExtremely serious or urgent
acute · critical · urgent · imperative · pangs · gnawing · aching · demanding
Strikingly expressive or sudden
- hyperboleRhetorical extreme exaggeration
- overstatementClaim beyond the facts
- melodramaticExaggeratedly emotional in expression
- theatricalExaggeratedly emotional for effect
overwrought · embellish · amplify · inflate · overemphasize · overdo · overplay · florid
famine
Severe food shortage
- malnutritionDisease from dietary inadequacy
- undernourishmentInsufficient dietary intake
- emaciationExtreme bodily thinness
malnourished · underfed · gaunt · wasting · skeletal · impoverished · destitute · scarcity · poverty · neediness
famished
Intensely, painfully hungry
craving · wolfish · voracious · snackish · empty · gutted · gasping · parched · hankering · jonesing
desperate
Driven by urgent need
dire · acute · critical · urgent · imperative · pangs · gnawing · aching · demanding · intense
dramatic
Strikingly expressive or sudden
- hyperboleRhetorical extreme exaggeration
- overstatementClaim beyond the facts
- melodramaticExaggeratedly emotional in expression
theatrical · overwrought · embellish · amplify · inflate · overemphasize · overdo · overplay · florid · effusive
- 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