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Synonyms for emaciated

  • adjective

Most common

starved haggard gaunt scrawny starveling

All synonyms

Adjective

1. Gaunt

gaunt, haggard, thin, scrawny, wasted, starved, skinny, poor, lean, skeletal, puny, meager US CA, meagre UK, pinched, attenuated, cadaverous, etiolated, lank, scraggy

Other

peaked, starveling

Antonyms

fat, obese

All antonyms of emaciated →

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease.

    The emaciated prisoners in the death camps were weak and sickly.

Example sentences

  • starved Mothers starved themselves to feed their children.
  • haggard Lone lions, alas, always end up being hunted and haggard.
  • gaunt I recoiled when I saw how gaunt she had become.
  • scrawny Tom doesn't know the difference between thin and scrawny.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
emaciatedrising
starvedsteady
haggardrising
gauntrising
scrawnyrising
starvelingsteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
poor1, thin1, lean1, puny2, lank1
5 letters
gaunt1
6 letters
wasted2, skinny2, peaked1, meager2, meagre
7 letters
starved1, pinched1, haggard2, scrawny2, scraggy
8 letters
skeletal3
9 letters
etiolated
10 letters
attenuated5, cadaverous, starveling

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (puny2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
émacié