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| Main Entry: |
starving/starved
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deprived of food |
| Synonyms: | could eat a horse, craving, dehydrated, drawn, dying, emaciated, empty, faint, famished, haggard, hungering, hungry, malnourished, peaked, peckish, perishing, pinched, ravenous, skinny, thin, underfed, undernourished, weakened |
| Antonyms: | fed, full, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | tired |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exhausted, weary |
| Synonyms: | all in, annoyed, asleep, beat*, bored, broken-down, burned out, collapsing, consumed, dead on one's feet, distressed, dog-tired, done for, done in, drained, drooping, droopy, drowsy, empty, enervated, exasperated, fagged, faint, fatigued, fed up*, finished, flagging, haggard, irked, irritated, jaded, narcoleptic, overtaxed, overworked, petered out, played out, pooped, prostrated, run-down, sick of, sleepy, spent, stale, tuckered out, wasted, worn, worn out |
| Antonyms: | activated, active, energized, fired up, fresh, invigorated, refreshed, rested |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wan |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | colorless, weak |
| Synonyms: | anemic, ashen, ashy, bilious, blanched, bleached, bloodless, cadaverous, dim, discolored, faint, feeble, forceless, ghastly, haggard, ineffective, ineffectual, livid, pale, pallid, pasty, peaked, sickly, washed-out, waxen, white, worn |
| Antonyms: | colorful, flushed, strong |
| Main Entry: | wasted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | emaciated |
| Synonyms: | anorexic, atrophied, attenuated, bony, famished, gaunt, haggard, lank, lean, scrawny, shrivelled, skeletal, skin-and-bones, skinny, starved, thin, underfed, undernourished, withered |
| Main Entry: | worn/worn-out |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | used, tired |
| Synonyms: | beat, burned out, bushed, busted, clichéd, consumed, depleted, destroyed, deteriorated, drained, drawn, effete, exhausted, fatigued, frayed, gone, hackneyed, had it, haggard, jaded, kaput, knocked out, old, out of gas, overused, overworked, pinched, played out, pooped, ragged, ruined, shabby, shot, spent, stale, tattered, the worse for wear, threadbare, timeworn, tired out, totaled, used up, useless, wearied, weary, well-worn, wiped out, worn down, wrung out |
| Antonyms: | fresh, new, unused |
| Main Entry: | starving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deprived |
| Synonyms: | craving, dehydrated, dog-hungry, drawn, dying, emaciated, empty, faint, famished, flying light, haggard, have munchies, hungering, hungry, malnourished, peaked, peaky, peckish, perishing, pinched, rattleboned, ravenous, skinny, starved, thin, underfed, undernourished, weakened |
| Antonyms: | full, satiated |
| Main Entry: | worn |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | used |
| Synonyms: | beat, burned out, bushed, busted, clichéd, consumed, depleted, destroyed, deteriorated, dinged, drained, drawn, effete, exhausted, fatigued, frayed, gone, hackneyed, had it, haggard, jaded, kaput, knocked out, old, overused, overworked, pegged out, pinched, played-out, pooped, ragged, ruined, shabby, shot, spent, stale, tattered, threadbare, timeworn, tired, tired out, totaled, used up, useless, wearied, weary, well-worn, wiped out, worn-down, worn-out, wrung out |
| Antonyms: | fresh, new, unused |
| Main Entry: | ghostlike |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ghastly |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, anemic, appalling, ashen, awful, bloodless, cadaverous, corpselike, deadly, deathlike, deathly, dim, disgusting, faint, frightening, frightful, funereal, ghostly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, haggard, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid |
| Main Entry: | lank |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thin |
| Synonyms: | all skin and bones, angular, attenuate, attenuated, beanpole, beanstalk, bony, cadaverous, delicate, emaciated, ethereal, featherweight, fleshless, fragile, gangling, gangly, gaunt, haggard, lanky, lean, lightweight, meager, narrow, peaked, pinched, pole, puny, rangy, rarefied, rawboned, reedy, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shadow, shriveled, skeletal, skinny, slender, slight, slim, slinky, small, spare, spindly, stalky, starved, stick*, stilt, subtle, thin as a rail, threadlike, twiggy, twiglike, undernourished, underweight, wan, wasted*, weedy, wizened |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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