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undernourished

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of undernourished

not getting enough food or not getting enough healthy food for good health and growth

undernourished children

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of undernourished

malnourished, starved, underfed

cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, skeletal, wasted

bony (also boney), lank, lanky, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, sinewy, skinny, spare, thin

famished, hungry, starving

shriveled (or shrivelled), withered, wizened

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of undernourished

beefy, brawny, burly, fit, hale, healthy, hearty, husky, nourished

chubby, corpulent, fat, fleshy, heavyset, obese, overweight, plump, portly, pudgy, roly-poly, rotund, stocky, thickset, tubby

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