Synonyms for starved
starved

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. starved

   Synonyms:
   lean, thin, meagre, attenuated, famished, hungry, emaciated, ill-fed, ill-conditioned

   Antonyms:
   fat, plump, well-conditioned, well-fed

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. starved, starvingadjective

   suffering from lack of food

   Synonyms:
   ravenous, esurient, sharp-set, famished, starving

   Antonyms:
   nourished, thirsty

2. famished, ravenous, sharp-set, starved, esurientadjective

   extremely hungry

   "they were tired and famished for food and sleep"; "a ravenous boy"; "the family was starved and ragged"; "fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy"

   Synonyms:
   starving, famished, rapacious, avid, sharp-set, greedy, esurient, ravenous, voracious, devouring(a), wolfish, edacious, ravening

   Antonyms:
   thirsty, nourished

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "starved":

   famished, hungry

How to pronounce starved?

How to say starved in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use starved in a sentence?

1. Bryanna Reid:

   It's ok to understand other people. But it's not enough. Advertence is necessary too. Because it's easy to understand abstract person if you're not a victim but outside observer. Imagine you say to friend who needs your help: «I understand the man who stole from you because he was starved». Or that: «I understand that scumbag who raped you because his wife ran out on him and he wanted to blow off steam». Only most hard-hearted person can say that.

2. William Cobbett:

   To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.

3. Sir Walter Scott:

   To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.

4. Kate Sheeran:

   One of the things that’s the best about music is that it helps us build community and have communal experiences, and it’s why, among the reasons we’ve been missing it so much, i think we’ve been starved for this kind of art and this kind of connection, and it’s beautiful to see it here every day.

5. Unknown:

   We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.