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. Jesse Hartness:

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

2. Elizabeth Hoff:

   I am really alarmed, people gathered in the market place. You could see many were malnourished, starving. They were skinny, tired, severely distressed. There was no smile on anybody's faces. It is not what you seen when you arrive with a convoy. The children I talked to said they had no strength to play.

3. 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.

4. El Hillo:

   We have seen with our own eyes severely malnourished children. I am sure there also malnourished older people and it is true they are malnourished, and so there is starvation.

5. Joseph Bompartito:

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