half-starved

Synonyms

gaunt hungry fasting bony starved starving famished underweight emaciated skin and bones malnourished undermanned unfed

Antonyms

elephantine replete bloated lardy

Examples

There webs were spread of more than common size, And half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies. Charles Churchill (satirist)

After eons of fighting his own battles, he finds himself being rescued from a desperate situation by a half-starved teenage girl. Source: Internet

Where in the past he had seen children calling out good-natured greetings from astride the backs of water buffalo, he might see a few half-starved, naked children hunkered down next to the village streams, hoping wearily to catch a fish. Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

half starved

Close letter words and terms

half-spiritedness half-staff half-standard half-station half-strained half-suit