emaciated

The word “emaciated” has 5 syllables: e-ma-ci-a-ted

It's pronounced as /ɪˈmeɪʃieɪtɪd/


What is synonym and antonym for emaciated?

In the thesaurus, “emaciated” has 58 synonyms and 35 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for emaciated along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for emaciated

Antonyms for emaciated

  • beefy
  • brawny
  • burly
  • chubby
  • convalesced
  • corpulent
  • fat
  • fit
  • flabby
  • fleshy
  • full
  • gained
  • hale
  • healthy
  • hearty
  • heavy
  • heavyset
  • husky
  • obese
  • overnourished
  • overweight
  • plump
  • portly
  • pudgy
  • rallied
  • rebounded
  • recovered
  • recuperated
  • roly-poly
  • rotund
  • soft
  • stocky
  • thick
  • thickset
  • tubby

Meanings of emaciated

  • verb
    1. To make extremely thin or wasted.
    2. To become extremely thin or wasted.
  • adjective
    1. Thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease.

Example Sentences

  • The emaciated dog was found wandering the streets, its ribs clearly visible beneath its fur.
  • After months of starvation, he appeared emaciated, his body frail and weak.
  • The soldiers returned from the battlefield looking emaciated, their faces hollow from lack of food.
  • The refugees were emaciated after enduring harsh conditions in the camp for weeks.
  • The once-healthy plants were now emaciated, struggling to survive without water or sunlight.

On this page you'll find 93 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to emaciated, such as: atrophied, attenuate, attenuated, beefy, boney, bony, brawny.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

cadaverous

  • anemic
  • ashen
  • ashy
  • bag of bones
  • blanched
  • bloodless
  • boney
  • bony
  • consumptive
  • dead
  • deathlike
  • deathly
  • doughy
  • emaciated
  • exsanguinous
  • famished
  • gaunt
  • ghastly
  • ghostly
  • haggard
  • hungry
  • lank
  • lanky
  • livid
  • lurid
  • mealy
  • pale
  • paled
  • pallid
  • pasty
  • peaked
  • peaky
  • rawboned
  • sallow
  • sallowish
  • scraggy
  • scrawny
  • shadowy
  • shriveled
  • shrivelled
  • sick
  • sickly
  • sinewy
  • skeletal
  • skeletonlike
  • skin and bones
  • skinny
  • spare
  • spectral
  • starved
  • starving
  • thin
  • underfed
  • undernourished
  • untanned
  • wan
  • wasted
  • waxen
  • waxy
  • whey-faced
  • white
  • white-faced
  • whitened
  • withered
  • wizened

haggard

macerated

  • bathed
  • battered
  • brewed
  • chewed
  • damped
  • dampened
  • decocted
  • diminished
  • dipped
  • doughy
  • doused
  • dowsed
  • drenched
  • drowned
  • emaciated
  • famished
  • gnarled
  • hashed
  • humidified
  • hydrated
  • immersed
  • impregnated
  • infiltrated
  • infused
  • inundated
  • lean
  • malnourished
  • marinated
  • masticated
  • mixed
  • moistened
  • mummified
  • old
  • pasty
  • penetrated
  • permeated
  • pounded
  • presoaked
  • pressed
  • pulped
  • pulpy
  • pulverized
  • ravenous
  • reduced
  • saturated
  • seethed
  • shrunk
  • shrunken
  • smashed
  • soaked
  • soddened
  • softened
  • sopped
  • soused
  • spongy
  • squashed
  • steeped
  • submerged
  • swamped
  • swilled
  • undernourished
  • washed
  • water-soaked
  • watered
  • waterlogged
  • wilted
  • withered
  • worn
  • wrinkled

sagged

ectomorphic


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