Synonyms of malnourished

malnourished

adjective

as in starving

not eating enough food or not eating enough healthy food; poorly nourished

The malnourished children were slowly nursed back to health.

Related Words

• starving
• starved
• undernourished
• underfed
• hungry
• famished
• peckish
• empty

Dissimilar Words

• satisfied
• content
• full
• stuffed
• overfed
• satiated
• glutted
• sated

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of malnourished

Warming temperatures and shifts in sea ice in the Arctic are disrupting the food web gray whales rely on during summer feeding months, according to a 2023 study in Science, leaving many malnourished during migration. — ABC News, 20 May 2026

Zoo announces third death, a sloth named Dumpling So far, three of 13 malnourished sloths have not survived after they were taken in by Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens in Sanford, about 25 miles from Orlando. — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 6 May 2026

Clinics treating malnourished children in Somalia have had to cut rations, with almost 500,000 children under five in the country facing severe acute malnutrition, Reuters reported. — semafor.com, 28 Apr. 2026

Moody was found dead, covered in scars and severely malnourished in her aunt’s east Charlotte home last year. — Ryan Oehrli april 28, Charlotte Observer, 28 Apr. 2026