" undernourishment "

1: as in malnutrition, starvation;

•  Synonyms : 

•  malnutrition,

•  starvation,

•  appetite,

•  belly,

•  emptiness,

•  famishment,

•  hunger,

•  munchies,

•  stomach,

•  rapaciousness,

•  rapacity,

•  ravenousness,

•  voraciousness,

•  voracity,

•  craving,

•  sweet tooth,

•  famine,

•  fast,

•  hunger strike,

•  gluttony,

•  gourmandism,

•  greed,

•  hoggishness

•  Antonyms : 

•  fill,

•  fullness,

•  glut,

•  repleteness,

•  repletion,

•  satiation,

•  satiety,

•  satisfaction,

•  surfeit,

•  inappetence

1: not getting enough food or not getting enough healthy food for good health and growth;

  * e.g., " ... undernourished children "

•  Synonyms : 

•  malnourished,

•  starved,

•  underfed,

•  cadaverous,

•  emaciated,

•  gaunt,

•  haggard,

•  skeletal,

•  wasted,

•  bony,

•  lank,

•  lanky,

•  rawboned,

•  scraggy,

•  scrawny,

•  sinewy,

•  skinny,

•  spare,

•  thin,

•  famished,

•  hungry,

•  starving,

•  shriveled,

•  withered,

•  wizened

•  Antonyms : 

•  beefy,

•  brawny,

•  burly,

•  fit,

•  hale,

•  healthy,

•  hearty,

•  husky,

•  nourished,

•  chubby,

•  corpulent,

•  fat,

•  fleshy,

•  heavyset,

•  obese,

•  overweight,

•  plump,

•  portly,

•  pudgy,

•  roly-poly,

•  rotund,

•  stocky,

•  thickset,

•  tubby,

•  flabby,

•  soft