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单词 famished
释义

famished

adjective

fam·​ished ˈfa-misht How to pronounce famished (audio)
: intensely hungry
also : needy sense 1

Synonyms

  • empty
  • hungry
  • peckish [chiefly British]
  • starved
  • starving
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Example Sentences

What's for supper? I'm famished. after a full day of skiing, I was feeling absolutely famished
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Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

famished

adjective

fam·​ished ˈfa-misht How to pronounce famished (audio)
: very hungry

famished

adjective

1
as in hungry
feeling a desire or need for food after a full day of skiing, I was feeling absolutely famished

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • hungry
  • starving
  • starved
  • peckish
  • ravenous
  • undernourished
  • malnourished
  • empty
  • underfed
  • voracious
  • wolfish
  • insatiable
  • gluttonous
  • rapacious
  • greedy
  • piggy
  • gormandizing
  • piggish
  • hoggish

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • satisfied
  • sated
  • satiated
  • full
  • overfed
  • glutted
  • surfeited
  • gorged
  • overstuffed
  • stuffed
  • satiate
  • engorged
  • overfull
  • replete
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2
as in impoverished
lacking money or material possessions a group of local citizens working to ease the plight of the famished families in their community

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • impoverished
  • poor
  • broke
  • beggared
  • needy
  • destitute
  • penniless
  • deprived
  • impecunious
  • pauperized
  • indigent
  • bankrupt
  • penurious
  • necessitous
  • depressed
  • needful
  • beggarly
  • bankrupted
  • skint
  • hard up
  • dirt-poor
  • disadvantaged
  • threadbare
  • distressed
  • poverty-stricken
  • down-and-out
  • dispossessed
  • underprivileged
  • ruined
  • out of pocket
  • out at elbows
  • out at the elbows
  • reduced
  • busted
  • down on one's luck
  • pinched
  • unaffluent
  • insolvent
  • straitened
  • bust
  • short
  • poorish
  • hardscrabble
  • possessionless
  • tapped out
  • cash-strapped
  • low
  • hand-to-mouth

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • affluent
  • wealthy
  • rich
  • moneyed
  • opulent
  • monied
  • fat
  • well-to-do
  • well-heeled
  • flush
  • comfortable
  • prosperous
  • well-off
  • deep-pocketed
  • fat-cat
  • silk-stocking
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