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What is another word for malnourished?

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Adjective
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Suffering from malnutrition
undernourished
underfed
emaciated
starving
underweight
thin
haggard
hungry
rattleboned
skinny
wasted
half-starved
deprived of food
starved
famished
anorexic
macerated
frail
weak
ill-fed
peckish
ravenous
empty
esurient
unfed
hollow
hungering
voracious
ravening
sharp-set
ready to eat a horse
could eat a horse
having the munchies
very hungry
starved to death
starving to death
flying light
dog-hungry
dying of hunger
faint from lack of food
lean
scrawny
bony
scraggy
gaunt
gangling
lanky
gangly
lank
meagerUS
meagreUK
angular
rawboned
beanpole
beanstalk
willowy
lithe
narrow
bare
withered
tenuous
little
broomstick
very thin
skin and bones
reedy
stringy
spare
spindly
raw-boned
attenuated
skeletal
wraithlike
cadaverous
thin as a rake
“But by now, all three were malnourished and suffering from amoebic dysentery.”
Adjective
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Having little, or too little, flesh or fat on the body
skinny
thin
lean
scrawny
bony
emaciated
gaunt
slender
lanky
slim
rangy
spindly
spare
angular
skeletal
scraggy
gangling
undernourished
gangly
lank
underfed
svelte
pinched
rawboned
lithe
underweight
gawky
anorexic
twiggy
fatless
boney
macilent
anorectic
starveling
waifish
scraggly
waiflike
skin-and-bones
size-zero
raw-boned
spindle-shanked
hollow-cheeked
stick-like
as thin as a rake
skin-and-bone
very thin
like a rail
looking like a bag of bones
puny
starved
starving
undersized
shadow
stringbean
skeleton
half-starved
skin and bone
skin and bones
sickly looking
haggard
as thin as a reed
cadaverous
wasted
attenuated
slight
willowy
sylphlike
light
meagerUS
gracile
meagreUK
drawn
withered
shriveledUS
shrivelledUK
deathlike
hollow-eyed
without an ounce of fat
lantern-jawed
reedy
stringy
weedy
ultrathin
stalky
sticklike
beanstalk
beanpole
fragile
twiglike
featherweight
peaked
peaky
raddled
over-thin
like a bag of bones
looking like death warmed up
like a matchstick
like a skeleton
thin as a rake
wizened
fleshless
shrunken
famished
atrophied
worn to a shadow
trim
lissom
graceful
wiry
attenuate
slightly built
snake-hipped
stick
clean-limbed
stark
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