famished as an adjective: - 1
famished
adjective
1 famished
Extremely hungry:
— They were tired and famished for food and sleep.
synonyms: esurient, ravenous, sharp-set, starved.
Roget 640:
insufficient,
inadequate;
too little
etc.
32;
not enough
etc.
639;
unequal to;
incompetent
etc.
(impotent)
158;
weighed in the balance and found wanting;"
perfunctory
etc.
(neglect)
460;
deficient
etc.
(incomplete)
53;
wanting,
etc.
v.;
imperfect
etc.
651;
ill-furnished,
ill-provided,
ill-stored,
ill-off.
slack,
at a low ebb;
empty,
vacant,
bare;
short of,
out of,
destitute of,
devoid of,
bereft of
etc.
789;
denuded of;
dry,
drained.
unprovided,
unsupplied†,
unfurnished;
unreplenished,
unfed†;
unstored†,
untreasured†;
empty-handed.
meager,
poor,
thin,
scrimp,
sparing,
spare,
stinted;
starved,
starving;
halfstarved,
famine-stricken,
famished;
jejune.
scant
etc.
(small)
32;
scarce;
not to be had,
not to be had for love or money,
not to be had at any price;
scurvy;
stingy
etc.
819;
at the end of one's tether;
without resources
etc.
632;
in want
etc.
(poor)
804;
in debt
etc.
806.
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Roget 865:
desirous;
desiring
etc.
v.;
inclined
etc.
(willing)
602;
partial to;
fain,
wishful,
optative†;
anxious,
wistful,
curious;
at a loss for,
sedulous,
solicitous.
craving,
hungry,
sharp-set,
peckish†,
ravening,
with an empty stomach,
esurient†,
lickerish†,
thirsty,
athirst,
parched with thirst,
pinched with hunger,
famished,
dry,
drouthy†;
hungry as a hunter,
hungry as a hawk,
hungry as a horse,
hungry as a church mouse,
hungry as a bear.
[excessively desirous]
greedy
etc.
817.1.
unsatisfied,
unsated,
unslaked;
unsaturated.
eager,
avid,
keen;
burning,
fervent,
ardent;
agog;
all agog;
breathless;
impatient
etc.
(impetuous)
825;
bent on,
intent on,
set on,
bent upon,
intent upon,
set upon;
mad after,
enrage,
rabid,
dying for,
devoured by desire.
aspiring,
ambitious,
vaulting,
skyaspiring,
high-reaching.
desirable;
desired
etc.
v.;
in demand;
pleasing
etc.
(giving pleasure)
829;
appetizing,
appetible†;
tantalizing.
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Polish: zgłodniały, wygłodniały
Moby thesaurus: bare-handed, beggarly, craving, dog-hungry, empty, empty-handed, famishing, fasting, half-famished, half-starved, hungering, hungry, ill off, ill-equipped, ill-furnished, ill-provided, impoverished, on short commons, pauperized, peckish, pinched with hunger, poor, ravening, ravenous, sharp-set, shorthanded, starved, starveling, starving, underfed, undermanned, undernourished, unfed, unfilled, unprovided, unreplenished, unsupplied, voracious, wolfish ... show more.
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