underfed (root: underfeed)

• HYPHEN: un=der=fed

OXFORD DICTIONARY

underfed, adj. insufficiently fed.

THESAURUS

underfed

attenuated, bare-handed, beggarly, cadaverous, corpselike, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, empty-handed, famished, haggard, half-starved, hollow-eyed, ill off, ill-equipped, ill-furnished, ill-provided, impoverished, jejune, marantic, marasmic, on short commons, pauperized, peaked, peaky, pinched, poor, puny, shorthanded, shriveled, skeletal, starved, starveling, starving, tabetic, tabid, undermanned, undernourished, unfed, unprovided, unreplenished, unsupplied, wasted, weazeny, withered, wizened, wraithlike