All famishing synonyms
fam·ish
F f adj famishing
- desirous — If you are desirous of doing something or desirous of something, you want to do it very much or want it very much.
- eager — keen or ardent in desire or feeling; impatiently longing: I am eager for news about them. He is eager to sing.
- keen — finely sharpened, as an edge; so shaped as to cut or pierce substances readily: a keen razor.
- greedy — excessively or inordinately desirous of wealth, profit, etc.; avaricious: the greedy owners of the company.
- ravenous — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
- avid — You use avid to describe someone who is very enthusiastic about something that they do.
- carnivorous — Carnivorous animals eat meat.
- covetous — A covetous person has a strong desire to possess something, especially something that belongs to another person.
- craving — an intense desire or longing
- famished — extremely hungry: to be famished after a hike; famished, homeless multitudes.
- hankering — a longing; craving.
- hollow — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
- omnivorous — eating both animal and plant foods.
- rapacious — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- unfilled — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
- unsatisfied — content: a satisfied look.
- voracious — craving or consuming large quantities of food: a voracious appetite.
- yearning — deep longing, especially when accompanied by tenderness or sadness: a widower's yearning for his wife.
- athirst — having an eager desire; longing
- edacious — devouring; voracious; consuming.
- hoggish — like or befitting a hog.
- piggish — resembling a pig, especially in being slovenly, greedy, or gluttonous: piggish table manners.
- insatiate — insatiable: insatiate greed.
verb famishing
- abstain — If you abstain from something, usually something you want to do, you deliberately do not do it.
- forbear — to refrain or abstain from; desist from.
- diet — the legislative body of certain countries, as Japan.
- refrain — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- starve — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- famish — (obsolete, transitive) To starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger.