Synonyms for malnourished
mælˈnɜr ɪʃt, -ˈnʌr-mal·nour·ished

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1. malnourishedadjective

   Synonyms:
   underfed, undernourished

   Antonyms:
   well-fed

2. malnourishedadjective

   suffering from malnutrition

   Synonyms:
   undernourished, underfed

   Antonyms:
   well-fed

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1. malnourishedadjective

   not being provided with adequate nourishment

   Antonyms:
   corn-fed, overfed, well-nourished, nourished, replete(p), full, stall-fed, well-fed

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1. List of paraphrases for "malnourished":

   undernourished, underfed

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1. Joseph Bompartito:

   They looked miserable, malnourished, very skinny, very pale with a depressed look on their face.

2. Roxanne Sukol:

   The big problem is that we've been told that we can nourish ourselves with these ultraprocessed foods, and we cannot. They don't nourish us. That's why I believe that obesity is (at least in part) a malnourished state, as opposed to the standard message being propagated in our society, which is that obesity is an overindulged state, but if that were true, then diets would work.

3. Elizabeth Hoff:

   You could see many were malnourished, starving. They were skinny, tired, severely distressed. There was no smile on anybody's face, the children I talked to said they had no strength to play.

4. World Food Programme:

   In northern Ghana, 30 percent of children under five are stunted or chronically malnourished, this not only affects their growth but also their educational development and economic potential, and consequently the future of the country.

5. Jesse Hartness:

   In Nepal, you already have more than 50% of children malnourished, this was already a nutritional emergency.