STARVED Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

starved

adjective

as in starving

feeling a desire or need for food after that long soccer practice, the children were really starved

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hungry

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Despite driving roughly 25,000 miles, Silbiger is hungry to get back on the asphalt to continue photographing.

— Sarah Silbiger, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
Ternus can’t simply bring the colossus that is Apple back to its hungry startup days, Milanesi said.

— Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 25 July 2026

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