Usually means: Lacking sufficient food for health.
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  1. undernourished: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. undernourished: Merriam-Webster
  3. undernourished: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. undernourished: Collins English Dictionary
  5. undernourished: Vocabulary.com
  6. undernourished: Wordnik
  7. undernourished: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. undernourished: Wiktionary
  9. undernourished: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. undernourished: Dictionary.com
  11. undernourished: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Undernourished: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. undernourished: Rhymezone
  14. undernourished: FreeDictionary.org
  15. undernourished: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. undernourished: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. undernourished: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Provided with insufficient nourishment to sustain proper health and growth.

Similar:
underfed, malnourished, ill-fed, misnourished, starved, nutritionless, unthriving, underweight, oligotrophic, inanitiated, more...

Opposite:
well-nourished, healthy, nourished, well-fed

Types:
anemic, malnourished, starved, emaciated, more...

Colors:
    beige,     pale yellow,     ash gray,     olive green,     dull brown, more...



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Similar:
underfed, malnourished, ill-fed, misnourished, starved, nutritionless, unthriving, underweight, oligotrophic, inanitiated, more...

Opposite:
well-nourished, healthy, nourished, well-fed

Types:
anemic, malnourished, starved, emaciated, more...

Colors:
    beige,     pale yellow,     ash gray,     olive green,     dull brown, more...



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