underfed

Questions about underfed

What does underfed mean?

underfed means "not getting adequate food".

How many syllables are in underfed?

underfed has 2 syllables and divides as under-fed under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for underfed?

Close synonyms include ill-fed, undernourished. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is underfed a common word?

underfed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.