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All famishing synonyms

fam·ish
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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.

adjective famishing

  • empty — A container (esp. a bottle or glass) left empty of its contents.
  • esurient — Hungry or greedy.
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