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famished

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of famished

1 feeling a desire or need for food

after a full day of skiing, I was feeling absolutely famished

Synonyms of famished

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

Words Related to famished

rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wolfish

malnourished, underfed, undernourished

gluttonous, gormandizing, greedy, hoggish, insatiable, piggish, piggy

Near Antonyms of famished

engorged, glutted, gorged, overfed, overfull, overstuffed, replete, stuffed, surfeited

Antonyms of famished

full, sated, satiate, satiated, satisfied

2 lacking money or material possessions

a group of local citizens working to ease the plight of the famished families in their community

Synonyms of famished

beggared, beggarly, broke, destitute, dirt-poor, down-and-out, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needful, needy, pauperized, penniless, penurious, poor, poverty-stricken, skint [chiefly British], threadbare

Words Related to famished

deprived, disadvantaged, dispossessed, unaffluent, underprivileged

bankrupt, bankrupted, bust (or busted), insolvent

possessionless, ruined

depressed, distressed, hand-to-mouth, hardscrabble, pinched, poorish, reduced, straitened

cash-strapped, low, short, tapped out

Phrases Synonymous with famished

down on one's luck, out at elbows (or out at the elbows), out of pocket

Near Antonyms of famished

comfortable, prosperous

Antonyms of famished

affluent, deep-pocketed, fat, fat-cat, flush, moneyed (also monied), opulent, rich, silk-stocking, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do

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