starveling

Speech parts

1. starveling - Noun

2. starveling - Adjective

Meaning

One who, or that which, pines from lack or food, or nutriment.

Hungry; lean; pining with want.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

low gaunt reedy thin slight spare wasted hungry lean slender skeletal bony starved slim meager
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Antonyms

tubby large full heavy chubby buxom
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Hypernyms

pauper

Examples

How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of late forgets himself into immortality. Wendell Phillips

Close letter words and terms

starved to death starved wood sedge starvedly starven starver starving