Starving

//ˈstɑɹvɪŋ//

Synonyms for "starving" (32 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (7)

hungry bare handed beggarly empty empty handed famished

Adjective(1 words)

famished

Strong matches (9)

fasting hungering ill-equipped ill-off impoverished malnourished meagre pauperized

Adjective(1 words)

hungry

Related words (16)

poor ravenous shorthanded starvation underfed undermanned undernourished unfed unfilled unprovided unsupplied voracious wolfish

Adjective(1 words)

ravenous

Noun(1 words)

starvation

Adjective(1 words)

starved

Related word relations

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8 relation types

More general

2 entries

deprivation privation

Synonyms

2 entries

ravenous starvation

causes desire

1 entries

go off strike

derived

2 entries

starving artist starvingly

derived from

1 entries

starve

form of

1 entries

starve

related to

3 entries

starvation starve starved

similar

2 entries

malnourished

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

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I'm starving!

Source: tatoeba (1754)

Provide starving people with food.

Source: tatoeba (20083)

I gasped with surprise at the horrible picture of the starving people.

Source: tatoeba (20085)

I'd been on my own all week and was starving for conversation.

Source: tatoeba (27739)

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