foodless

1 8.1

A person or place that has no food to eat

adjective
/ˈfuːdləs/

: sin comida

Many children in the region experienced foodless nights due to the ongoing famine and lack of resources.

I stayed up two nights, sleepless, foodless, and just read through it.

Examples

Maybe l should be thankful that was a foodless kiss.

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)
I stayed up two nights, sleepless, foodless, and just read through it.

ReasonTV
I'm not belittling the foodless fund, Peter, it's just that we're talking teen suicide here.

Heathers (1988)
The job was the least of her problems now, but she felt with absolute certainty there was no way she'd be able to do it, that she couldn't wait through a cold and foodless weekend for such horrors.

Fiction book (1999)
After being lost for days in the wilderness, they found themselves foodless and desperate for help.
During the long journey, we encountered a foodless stretch where our provisions ran out completely.

Synonyms

hungry

vsfoodless

∞ 1.0

Feeling a need to eat

refers to actually lacking food rather than the feeling

malnourished

vsfoodless

19 5.6

A person or animal that does not have enough food and is weak

describes lacking food itself without implying health damage

underfed

vsfoodless

4 3.4

Not having enough food to be healthy

implies a complete lack of food rather than insufficient amounts

undernourished

vsfoodless

3 4.4

Not having enough food to stay healthy and grow

is simply the state of having no food available

unfed

vsfoodless

1 4.1

Not given food or the support it needs

is a general lack of food whatever the cause

ill-fed

vsfoodless

1 5.5

Not getting enough food to stay healthy

focuses on total absence of food rather than poor feeding

empty-bellied

vsfoodless

1 4.1

Feeling hungry and weak

describes absence of food itself, not just stomach sensation

unnourished

vsfoodless

1 7.5

Not having enough food or nutrients to grow and stay healthy

is the basic absence of food rather than long term nutrient lack

Antonyms

nourished

7 2.7

Having enough good food to be healthy and grow

How Empty

foodless

1 8.1

starving

246 1.4

hungry

∞ 1.0

peckish

6 7.3

satisfied

12 1.0

well-fed

24 1.1

Surface Forms

foodless positive

Morphology

foodless = food (transparent) = food + less

The adjective is directly formed by adding the negative suffix '-less' to the noun 'food', yielding 'without food'.

Etymology

Foodless is made from food and the ending -less, which means 'without'. So foodless means 'without food', like an empty pantry or a village that has no food after a storm.