Without food; destitute of provisions; barren.

adjective. Without food; barren.

adjective. Lacking food.

adjective. being without food

"His most famous experiment showed that baby rhesus monkeys, raised alone or with same-age peers, preferred a foodless but fuzzy terrycloth surrogate “mother” over a wire-mesh version that freely dispensed meals."

malnourished  

dark-looking  down-and-out  half-cultivated  high-lying  houseless  

barren