FAMISHED Synonyms: 97 Similar and Opposite Words

famished

adjective

ˈfa-misht

Definition of famished

as in hungry

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

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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

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Recent Examples of famished Supporting small business is another core Fat Cake tenet, which means giving advance warning to bakeries that a famished horde of up to 125 bicyclists is on the way. — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2026 With visceral immediacy, O’Farrell channels the terror of arriving in a strange land, ragged and famished, without family, friends, or funds. — Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2026 Last year, the Arizona Department of Game and Fish recorded a spike in human-bear conflicts, evidence that food scarcity was driving famished bears into human territory. — Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 20 Feb. 2026 Hiking the craggy landscape of Pinnacles National Park, forged by volcanic eruptions so long ago, might leave one as famished as a California condor — which indeed call these badlands home. — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for famished

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But be warned, reservations are a must — BoccaLupo is bustling with hungry diners from open to close.

— Blair Crosby, AJC.com, 5 July 2026
Reinventing the aliens' origin story — as nomadic, resource-hungry scavengers — just made sense in the cynical '90s.

— Richard Edwards, Space.com, 4 July 2026

Definition of hungry

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This British drama series follows a woman named Emma over the course of more than six decades of her life, from the 1900s through the 1970s, working her way from impoverished maid to the world’s richest woman.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Known as a Neglected Tropical Disease because of the lack of funding to fight it, schistosomiasis is a serious challenge for impoverished communities.

— William McCarthy, NPR, 4 July 2026

Definition of impoverished

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In Timon, by contrast, everything is a rush, everything is broke-off and confused, everything is hurtling through suffering towards oblivion.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
As the match enters a hydration break, Austria — which has already gone for broke with four substitutions this half — will have to try something different to rally.

— Ashley Mowreader, NBC news, 3 July 2026

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