emaciated
Meaning of emaciated
- abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or a lack of food.
she was so emaciated she could hardly stand
early 17th century: from Latin emaciat- ‘made thin’, from the verb emaciare, from e- (variant of ex-, expressing a change of state) + macies ‘leanness’.
Information about emaciated
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of emaciated
ema-ci-ated
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- emaciated is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
emaciated synonyms
Meaning bony:
bony, cadaverous, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted
Meaning having little, or too little, flesh or fat on the body:
Meaning (of a person or animal) unattractively thin and bony:
Meaning (of a person or part of their body) unattractively thin:
Meaning (of a person or animal) thin and bony:
Meaning having angles or sharp corners:
Meaning suffer or die or cause to suffer or die from hunger:
Meaning insufficiently fed or nourished:
Meaning having insufficient food or other substances for good health and condition:
Meaning below a weight considered normal or desirable:
Meaning wrinkled and shrunken, especially as a result of loss of moisture or old age:
Meaning having become or been made smaller in size:
Meaning (of a plant) dry and shrivelled:
Meaning (of a person) looking strained from illness, exhaustion, anxiety, or pain:
Meaning shrivelled or wrinkled with age:
Meaning having been reduced in force, effect, or value:
Meaning (of body tissue or an organ) wasted away or rudimentary:
Meaning relating to, characterized by, or suffering from anorexia:
emaciated antonyms
Meaning (of a person or animal) having a large amount of excess flesh:
Translation of emaciated
- German: ausgezehrt
- French: déchamé
- Spanish: demacrado, macilento, demacrada, macilenta
- Italian: scarno, emaciato, macilento, sciupato
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