famished

fam·ished

adj \ˈfa-misht\

Definition of FAMISHED

: intensely hungry; also : needy 1

Examples of FAMISHED

1. What's for supper? I'm famished.
2. <after a full day of skiing, I was feeling absolutely famished>

First Known Use of FAMISHED

15th century

Related to FAMISHED

Synonyms: empty, hungry, peckish [chiefly British], starved, starving

Antonyms: full, sated, satiate, satiated, satisfied

Related Words: rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wolfish; malnourished, underfed, undernourished; gluttonous, gormandizing, greedy, hoggish, insatiable, piggish, piggy

Near Antonyms: engorged, glutted, gorged, overfed, overfull, overstuffed, replete, stuffed, surfeited

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