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sex-starved

sex-starved

2 8.0
Wanting sex but not getting it
  • adjective
  • /sɛksˈstɑrvd/
  • NSFW
: hambriento de sexo
  • Tonight, when I pick her up and she comes out onto her parents' front porch, I see her seeing me, sunbaked, shorthaired, sex-starved, and oddly wrong-looking in my civilian clothes.
  • sex-starved marriage

Examples

  • The character in the play was portrayed as sex-starved, desperately seeking affection and fulfillment.

  • I'm better than those God-fearing, sex-starved, TV evangelists!

  • We're a nation of sex-starved, frustrated men, so we jog and vote for the death penalty!

  • A cab driver is shacked up with a sex-starved medium named Blanche Tyler.

  • After months without intimacy, he felt utterly sex-starved and longed for a meaningful connection.

  • In a recent article, the author described how a sex-starved society often resorts to unrealistic portrayals of relationships.

Synonyms

lustful
vssex-starved
  • NSFW
11 6.3

Wanting to have sex

is about wanting sexual activity while being deprived of it
lascivious
vssex-starved
  • Offensive
10 9.5

Showing strong sexual desire that makes others uncomfortable

is wanting sexual activity but not expressing it offensively
prurient
vssex-starved
  • Offensive
9 9.9

Having too much interest in sex that makes other people uncomfortable

is wanting sexual activity while also being denied it
ungratified
vssex-starved
1 7.2

Not feeling satisfied because a wish was not met

is the same desire but specifically lacks sexual gratification

How Sexually Deprived

desperate
705 3.3
sex-starved
  • NSFW
2 8.0

Surface Forms

sex-starved positive

Morphology

sex-starved = sex + starved (transparent) = sex + starve + ed

A productive compounding pattern where 'sex' + 'starved' clearly means deprived of sexual activity, following the same logic as X-starved (e.g., attention-starved).

Etymology

The word sex-starved joins sex and starved; starved means 'lacking food' or 'very hungry', so a sex-starved person is described as being very hungry for sex because they do not have it.