335 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ iːmˈe͡ɪsɪˌe͡ɪtɪd], [ iːmˈe‍ɪsɪˌe‍ɪtɪd], [ iː_m_ˈeɪ_s_ɪ__ˌeɪ_t_ɪ_d]

Similar words: anorexic, thin, skinny, underweight, bony

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Similar words for emaciated:

• anorexic (adjective)
• cadaverous (adjective)
• gaunt (adjective)
• haggard (adjective)
• hollow-eyed (adjective)
• lank (adjective)
• lean (adjective)
• meager (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• peaked (adjective)
• skeletal (adjective)
• skinny (adjective)
• starved (adjective)
• starving (adjective)
• starving/starved (adjective)
• thin (adjective)
• emaciated (noun)
• gaunt (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other relevant words (verb)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

Homophones for emaciated

Synonyms for Emaciated:

• adj.

  • anorexic (adjective)
  • sickly looking,
  • malnourished,
  • without appetite,
  • bulimic.
  • cadaverous (adjective)
  • ghostly,
  • peaky,
  • sickly,
  • wan,
  • ashen,
  • corpse-like,
  • skeletonlike,
  • bloodless,
  • pallid,
  • pale,
  • exsanguinous,
  • death-like,
  • sallow,
  • bag of bones.
  • gaunt (adjective)
  • de-solate,
  • scraggier,
  • like bag bones,
  • more skeleton,
  • most skeleton,
  • more attenuated,
  • most attenuated,
  • like bag of bones,
  • forbidding,
  • most pinched,
  • more pinched,
  • de solate,
  • like a bag bones.
  • haggard (adjective)
  • more fagged,
  • most worn-down,
  • more worndown,
  • most careworn,
  • wearied,
  • most fagged,
  • worndown,
  • more careworn,
  • more worn down,
  • more fretted,
  • most worn down,
  • most fretted,
  • more worn-down,
  • most worndown.
  • hollow-eyed (adjective)
  • holloweyed,
  • hollow eyed.
  • lank (adjective)
  • all skin and bones,
  • thin as a rail,
  • thin as rail,
  • more fleshless,
  • most fleshless,
  • Fleshless,
  • all skin bones.
  • lean (adjective)
  • in-adequate,
  • more beanpole,
  • stilter,
  • most shadow,
  • stiltest,
  • in adequate,
  • in-fertile,
  • most sylphlike,
  • most beanpole,
  • in fertile,
  • un productive,
  • un fruitful,
  • more shadow,
  • more sylphlike,
  • stickest,
  • un-productive,
  • un-fruitful,
  • stilt.
  • meager (adjective)
  • meager,
  • more stinted,
  • most stinted,
  • most broomstick,
  • most rattleboned,
  • lithe,
  • most beanstalk,
  • more rattleboned,
  • more broomstick,
  • more beanstalk.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • peaked,
  • beanstalk,
  • lank,
  • bony,
  • reedy,
  • poler,
  • Hungering,
  • worn-down,
  • flying light,
  • bilious,
  • skin-and-bone,
  • scraggy,
  • gaunt,
  • like a bag of bones,
  • weedy,
  • rattleboned,
  • careworn,
  • haggard,
  • starving,
  • like a rail,
  • could eat a horse,
  • no fat,
  • hollow-eyed,
  • scraggiest,
  • atrophied,
  • skinny,
  • cadaverous,
  • broomstick,
  • sticker,
  • dog-hungry,
  • undernourished,
  • peckish,
  • Stalky,
  • twiggy,
  • anorexic,
  • sylphlike,
  • featherweight,
  • in bad shape,
  • worn down,
  • twiglike,
  • fagged,
  • skin-and-bones.
  • peaked (adjective)
  • more bilious,
  • most bilious,
  • under weather.
  • skeletal (adjective)
  • more shrivelled,
  • most shrivelled,
  • more skin-and-bones,
  • most atrophied,
  • most skin-and-bones,
  • more skin and bones,
  • most skin and bones,
  • more atrophied.
  • skinny (adjective)
  • more skin-and-bone,
  • more skin and bone,
  • skin and bone,
  • most skin and bone,
  • under-weight,
  • like rail,
  • most undernourished,
  • most skin-and-bone,
  • under nourished,
  • under-nourished,
  • under weight,
  • more undernourished.
  • starved (adjective)
  • most macerated,
  • more macerated.
  • starving (adjective)
  • doghungry,
  • more dog hungry,
  • more dog-hungry,
  • most dog hungry,
  • dog hungry,
  • most doghungry,
  • most dog-hungry,
  • have munchies,
  • more doghungry.
  • starving/starved (adjective)
  • de-hydrated,
  • most hungering,
  • more peckish,
  • more perishing,
  • could eat horse,
  • more starved,
  • most perishing,
  • de hydrated,
  • more dehydrated,
  • more craving,
  • most dehydrated,
  • most craving,
  • more hungering,
  • most peckish.
  • thin (adjective)
  • more attenuate,
  • reediest,
  • most attenuate,
  • most featherweight,
  • threadlike,
  • most shriveled,
  • stalkiest,
  • reedier,
  • more shriveled,
  • more featherweight,
  • polest,
  • most twiglike,
  • more twiglike,
  • stalkier.

• n.

  •
  • be (all) skin and bone(s).
  •
  • better,
  • skin and bones,
  • tired.
  • emaciated (noun)
  • skeletal,
  • pinched,
  • wasted,
  • lean.
  • gaunt (noun)
  • starved.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • characteristic.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • thin,
  • state.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • gangly,
  • lanky,
  • rangy,
  • strong,
  • gangling,
  • slightly built,
  • underweight,
  • gawky,
  • scrawny.
  •
  • angular,
  • spectral,
  • stringy,
  • puny,
  • shrunken,
  • slight.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • desolated,
  • impecunious,
  • starveling,
  • wraithlike,
  • raddled,
  • anorectic,
  • desiccated,
  • anemic,
  • Macilent,
  • spare,
  • hatchet-faced,
  • shrivelled,
  • adenoidal,
  • devastated,
  • abnormally thin,
  • infirm,
  • sparse,
  • fatless,
  • exhausted,
  • hard up,
  • brittle,
  • wasting,
  • pasty,
  • slender,
  • penurious,
  • wrinkled,
  • boney,
  • attenuate,
  • preshrunk,
  • sere,
  • anaemic,
  • underfed,
  • depleted,
  • papery,
  • feeble,
  • unwholesome,
  • cadaveric,
  • half-starved,
  • spindly,
  • withered,
  • debilitated,
  • senseless,
  • nasal,
  • slim,
  • diminished,
  • hungry,
  • rawboned,
  • weary,
  • turned,
  • sear,
  • unwell,
  • emaciate,
  • Peakish,
  • ravaged,
  • ill,
  • rotted,
  • lantern-jawed,
  • wilted,
  • desolate,
  • enfeebled,
  • wizen,
  • played out,
  • Weazeny,
  • Macerated,
  • Raw-boned,
  • weak,
  • penniless,
  • dry,
  • wiry,
  • worn,
  • sterile,
  • shrunk,
  • spent,
  • jejune,
  • ruined,
  • Liquidated,
  • pointless,
  • weakened,
  • Languished,
  • run-down,
  • consumptive,
  • bare-boned,
  • squandered,
  • consumed,
  • osseous,
  • unhealthy,
  • corpselike,
  • skimp,
  • famished,
  • blasted,
  • corky,
  • ailing,
  • otiose,
  • drawn,
  • Wizen-faced,
  • ghastly,
  • shriveled,
  • purposeless,
  • scrimpy,
  • drained,
  • osteal,
  • Toil-worn,
  • thinned,
  • Whey-faced,
  • wasted away,
  • wispy,
  • wasting away,
  • attenuated,
  • wizened,
  • poor,
  • Tabetic,
  • hollow-cheeked,
  • Tabid,
  • waxen,
  • meagre,
  • parched,
  • barren,
  • Phthisic,
  • undersized,
  • dried-up,
  • superfluous,
  • Marantic.

Homophones for Emaciated:

• enact, ensete, engaged, enhanced, emaciate, enkaid, eumycota, emeside, encode, encased, enmeshed, enkidu, encysted, enunciate.