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starving

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of starving

feeling a desire or need for food

I missed lunch, and now I'm starving

Synonyms of starving

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

Words Related to starving

rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wolfish

malnourished, underfed, undernourished

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

Near Antonyms of starving

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

Antonyms of starving

full, sated, satiate, satiated, satisfied

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