unfed
Lacking any nourishment
Unfed means not having been fed.
A person or animal that is unfed has gone without food: The unfed kittens mewed pitifully.
The word can extend to anything that requires sustenance or input: an unfed fire, unfed ambitions.
It emphasizes deprivation—not merely hungry, but neglected.
Insufficiently nourished
- emaciatedAbnormally wasted from hunger
- gauntLean from deprivation
- wastedUsed without good result
- skeletalOf or like bones
scrawny · thin · weak · frail · bony · cadaverous · haggard · pallid
Suffering extreme hunger
- ravenousExtremely hungry, insatiable
- famishedIntensely, painfully hungry
- peckishMildly hungry
- appetiteDesire for food
cravings · pangs · voracious · insatiable · hollow · yearning · wolfish · gnawing
Not occupied or completed
- depletedSeverely reduced or emptied
- unstockedLacking inventory or supplies
- bareLacking any covering
- barrenUnable to produce
void · vacant · hollow · clean · cleared · drained · exhausted · unreplenished
Lacking attention or maintenance
- unattendedLacking supervision or care
- overlookedNot noticed or considered
- abandonedLeft behind completely
- forgottenNo longer recalled
ignored · unloved · forlorn · derelict · unkept · untended · disregarded · forsaken
undernourished
Insufficiently nourished
skeletal · scrawny · thin · weak · frail · bony · cadaverous · haggard · pallid · atrophied
starving
Suffering extreme hunger
appetite · cravings · pangs · voracious · insatiable · hollow · yearning · wolfish · gnawing · craving
unfilled
Not occupied or completed
barren · void · vacant · hollow · clean · cleared · drained · exhausted · unreplenished · unsupplied
uncared-for
Lacking attention or maintenance
- unattendedLacking supervision or care
- overlookedNot noticed or considered
- abandonedLeft behind completely
forgotten · ignored · unloved · forlorn · derelict · unkept · untended · disregarded · forsaken · unwatched