What is another word for underfed?
Pronunciation:
[ ˌʌndəfˈɛd], [ ˌʌndəfˈɛd], [ ˌʌ_n_d_ə_f_ˈɛ_d]
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Similar words for underfed:
- emaciated (adjective)
- meager (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- puny (adjective)
- starving (adjective)
- starving/starved (adjective)
- wasted (adjective)
- ill-fed (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Underfed:
adj.
• emaciated (adjective)- more attenuate,
- more skeletonlike,
- more atrophied,
- more pinched,
- more skin and bones,
- most skin-and-bones,
- most atrophied,
- most skin and bones,
- most attenuated,
- like bag bones,
- most skeletonlike,
- like a bag bones,
- most pinched,
- like bag of bones,
- more skin-and-bones,
- more attenuated,
- most attenuate.
- more beanpole,
- most stinted,
- most beanstalk,
- more broomstick,
- more rattleboned,
- scraggier,
- lithe,
- more beanstalk,
- most broomstick,
- most rattleboned,
- most beanpole,
- skin bones,
- more stinted,
- meager.
- malnourished,
- rattleboned,
- puny,
- Hungering,
- shrimper,
- scraggiest,
- small fry,
- shrimp,
- in firm,
- peaky,
- dog-hungry,
- peckish,
- flying light,
- skin and bones,
- beanstalk,
- like a bag of bones,
- scraggy,
- under-sized,
- could eat a horse,
- atrophied,
- starving,
- thin as rail,
- small time,
- undernourished,
- wasted,
- skeletonlike,
- small-fry,
- Unconsequential,
- emaciated,
- peewee,
- skin-and-bones,
- pint-sized,
- broomstick,
- half-pint.
- more half-pint,
- un substantial,
- most pint-sized,
- in-consequential,
- under sized,
- zilcher,
- most half-pint,
- in firmest,
- pint sized,
- halfpint,
- un-sound,
- half pint,
- most small fry,
- un consequential,
- more unconsequential,
- more half pint,
- more small fry,
- zilchest,
- in-firmer,
- most pint sized,
- shrimpest,
- un-substantial,
- most nothing,
- most peanut,
- most half pint,
- un-sounder,
- smallfry,
- most zero,
- more nothing,
- most small-fry,
- more peanut,
- most halfpint,
- in-firmest,
- un sounder,
- more pint sized,
- more halfpint,
- more pint-sized,
- two bit,
- most unconsequential,
- runtest,
- runter,
- more zero,
- more smallfry,
- twobit,
- more peewee,
- in consequential,
- more small-fry,
- un-soundest,
- in firmer,
- un-developed,
- most smallfry,
- un sound,
- most peewee,
- un-consequential.
- most dog hungry,
- most dog-hungry,
- peakiest,
- more doghungry,
- peakier,
- more dog-hungry,
- dog hungry,
- more dog hungry,
- doghungry,
- have munchies,
- most doghungry.
- more dehydrated,
- more undernourished,
- de-hydrated,
- more perishing,
- could eat horse,
- most malnourished,
- more hungering,
- most undernourished,
- most craving,
- de hydrated,
- under-nourished,
- more starved,
- most peckish,
- most dehydrated,
- more peckish,
- under nourished,
- more craving,
- more malnourished,
- most hungering,
- most perishing.
n.
• ill-fed (noun) • Other relevant words: (noun)Other synonyms:
• Other relevant words (noun):- frail,
- sparse,
- pygmy,
- impoverished,
- starved,
- Weazeny,
- empty-handed,
- slender,
- weakly,
- unfed,
- attenuated,
- sickly,
- skinny,
- pinched,
- starveling,
- scrawny,
- hungry,
- poor,
- Pauperized,
- gangling,
- anorectic,
- Unprovided,
- thin,
- slim,
- meagre,
- famished,
- weak,
- shorthanded,
- wasting,
- ill-equipped,
- wispy,
- wraithlike,
- Unreplenished,
- hollow-cheeked,
- lean,
- spare,
- gaunt,
- Tabetic,
- emaciate,
- stunted,
- slight,
- bare-boned,
- feeble,
- twiggy,
- undersized,
- shrivelled,
- jejune,
- underdeveloped,
- drawn,
- unsupplied,
- bony,
- skeletal,
- undermanned,
- anorexic,
- midget,
- haggard,
- beggarly,
- Raw-boned,
- hollow-eyed,
- Phthisic,
- underweight,
- corpselike,
- half-starved,
- lank,
- Marantic,
- shriveled,
- peaked,
- Tabid,
- spindly,
- wizened,
- withered,
- dwarf,
- shrunken,
- bare-handed,
- cadaverous,
- lanky,
- consumptive,
- ill-furnished.
How to use "Underfed" in context?
Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by obsessive thoughts about food and inability to maintain a healthy weight. A person with an anorexia nervosa often obsessively monitors their weight and tends to avoid eating anything that their body deems as "too heavy." Frequently, people with anorexia nervosa cut down on their caloric intake to such an extent that they become underfed, leading to Significant health problems.
Health professionals typically classify anorexia nervosa as a type 2 disorder, meaning that it's caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors.
Paraphrases for Underfed:
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Equivalence
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Verb, past participle
undernourished.
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Independent
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Verb, past participle
malnourished.
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