supperless
Lacking evening meal
Without supper; having gone without the evening meal.
The word appears in older literature and moralizing contexts: The children were sent to bed supperless.
It carries a note of deprivation or punishment, suggesting hunger as consequence rather than choice.
Intensely, painfully hungry
- starvingSuffering extreme hunger
- ravenousExtremely hungry, insatiable
- emptyHolding nothing inside
- growlingDeep threatening vocalization
pangs · gnawing · peckish · appetite · craving · unfed · mealless · dinnerless
- DickensianGrimly poor, socially unjust
- orphanChild whose parents died
- bedtimeDesignated hour for retiring
- punishedPenalized for misbehavior
nursery · workhouse · waif · urchin · neglected · pitiful · storybook · Victorian
Sad and abandoned
- desolateBleak and abandoned
- lonelyWanting companionship
- wistfulSadly longing for something
- piningAching with prolonged desire
yearning · bereft · cheerless · bleak · comfortless · dreary · joyless · forsaken
Extremely lacking in money
- destituteUtterly without means
- indigentExtremely poor, lacking necessities
- hardshipSuffering from difficult circumstances
- wantTo desire something
underprivileged · needy · penury · squalor · scarcity · lacking · deprived · necessitous
Voluntary forgoing of indulgences
- fastSpeedy, or skip eating
- disciplineTrained self-control or specialty
- self-denialRestraining one's own desires
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
observance · ritual · penance · Lenten · Ramadan · vigil · ascetic · voluntary
famished
Intensely, painfully hungry
growling · pangs · gnawing · peckish · appetite · craving · unfed · mealless · dinnerless · hollow
Oliver Twist
- DickensianGrimly poor, socially unjust
- orphanChild whose parents died
- bedtimeDesignated hour for retiring
punished · nursery · workhouse · waif · urchin · neglected · pitiful · storybook · Victorian
forlorn
Sad and abandoned
pining · yearning · bereft · cheerless · bleak · comfortless · dreary · joyless · forsaken · abandoned
impoverished
Extremely lacking in money
- destituteUtterly without means
- indigentExtremely poor, lacking necessities
- hardshipSuffering from difficult circumstances
want · underprivileged · needy · penury · squalor · scarcity · lacking · deprived · necessitous · poor
abstinence
Voluntary forgoing of indulgences
- fastSpeedy, or skip eating
- disciplineTrained self-control or specialty
- self-denialRestraining one's own desires
sacrifice · observance · ritual · penance · Lenten · Ramadan · vigil · ascetic · voluntary · spiritual