Having the sensation of hunger; feeling pain or uneasiness from want of food; having a keen appetite.

Afflicted with hunger; very hungry, famished. Also figurative.

Hungry; famished, starved.

Famished, hungry, starved.

= starved, adj. (in various senses).

= hunger-bitten, adj.

‘Bitten’ or pinched with hunger; famished, starved.

Afflicted with (extreme) hunger; starving, famished. Also in extended use.

Deprived of food and the necessaries of life; suffering from hunger or lack of food, famished, starving; poverty-stricken.

That is dying or wasting away for lack of food; characterized by starvation. Also more generally: that lacks the necessaries of life; impoverished…

made lean or meagre; starved.

sick for want of food; (also) longing for a particular type of food.

(a) on the point of starvation (now dialect); †(b) affected with hernia.

famished, starving; = starve-gutted adj. at starve, v. compounds.

Having insufficient food; poorly fed.

Starved, undernourished.

having a pinched stomach, hungry.

famished, starving; fit for starvation.

Pinched with hunger, starving; clemmed adj. at clem, v.1 derivatives.