Famished means extremely hungry. Absolutely famished, I am famished, famished by the time we got there.
In ordinary British use it is an exaggeration for missing a meal, and it is one of the standard hyperboles alongside starving and ravenous. Its literal sense is far heavier — famished belongs to famine, and describes people actually without food. Note famish as a verb, now almost extinct except in this participle; and that the word came from Latin fames, hunger, by way of an Old French verb.
1adjectivefamishedExtremely hungry.
“After the long walk, we were famished and ate everything on the table.”
synonyms: starving, ravenous
famished is a state of hunger.
Also accepted in games: ravenous
Inflected forms.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA