famishedEnglishOxford American Thesaurusfamished adjective the troops were exhausted and famished: very hungry, ravenous, starving, starving to death, starved, dying of hunger, faint from lack of food, deprived of food, empty; undernourished, malnourished, half-starved, unfed; informal peckish; rare sharp-set, esurient. ▷antonyms well fed; full up.