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. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Zurenko Family:

   Because it's worse than having no gas, at least if you have no gas, you just sit at home. If you don't have formula — babies are going to die or be malnourished.

5. David Tilman:

   We have a whole new group of people who are malnourished because they eat foods that are no good for them, that have no nutritional benefit.