adj
Meaning 1
Extremely hungry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- I'm famished; I haven't eaten since yesterday.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: starving, ravenous
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
famished
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈfæmɪʃt/
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verb
Meaning 2
simple past and past participle of famish
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
extremely hungry
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- they were tired and famished for food and sleep
- a ravenous boy
- the family was starved and ragged
- fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ravenous, sharp-set, starved, esurient
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Inflected forms.
Across languages
Translations
40 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: ضَارِم (ḍārim) — extremely hungry
- Arabic: مُعَصَّب (muʕaṣṣab) — extremely hungry
- Arabic: خَميص — extremely hungry
- Asturian: esfamiáu — extremely hungry
- Asturian: famientu — extremely hungry
- Chinese Mandarin: 惄 (nì) — extremely hungry
- Czech: vyhladovělý — extremely hungry
- Czech: umírající hlady — extremely hungry
- Danish: udhungret — extremely hungry
- Dutch: uitgehongerd — extremely hungry
- Faroese: svøltur — extremely hungry
- French: affamé — extremely hungry
- Galician: esfameado — extremely hungry
- Galician: famélico — extremely hungry
- Galician: famelgo — extremely hungry
- German: verhungert — extremely hungry
- German: ausgehungert — extremely hungry
- Greek: νηστικός (nistikós) — extremely hungry
- Greek: πειναλέος (peinaléos) — extremely hungry
- Ancient Greek: πρόσπεινος (próspeinos) — extremely hungry
- Latin: famēlicus — extremely hungry
- Māori: pakaroa — extremely hungry
- Māori: matekai — extremely hungry
- Norman: famélique — extremely hungry
- Nǀuu: quaqî — extremely hungry
- Polish: wygłodzony — extremely hungry
- Polish: zgłodniały — extremely hungry
- Portuguese: faminto — extremely hungry
- Portuguese: esfomeado — extremely hungry
- Romanian: înfometat — extremely hungry
- Romanian: hămesit — extremely hungry
- Russian: голо́дный (golódnyj) — extremely hungry
- Russian: изголода́вшийся (izgolodávšijsja) — extremely hungry
- Russian: голода́ющий (golodájuščij) — extremely hungry
- Spanish: hambreado — extremely hungry
- Spanish: afamado — extremely hungry
- Spanish: famélico — extremely hungry
- Spanish: hambrón — extremely hungry
- Swedish: utsvulten — extremely hungry
- Tagalog: dayukdok — extremely hungry