Hungry

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Experiencing a desire or need for food.
  • adj. Extremely desirous; avid: hungry for recognition.
  • adj. Characterized by or expressing hunger or craving: hungry eyes.
  • adj. Lacking richness or fertility: hungry soil.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. affected by hunger; desirous of food; having a physical need for food.
  • adj. eager, having an avid desire ('appetite') for something.
  • adj. Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.
  • adj. Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious.
  • adj. Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having or feeling hunger; feeling pain or uneasiness from want of food; having a keen appetite.
  • Hence Having an eager desire for anything; longing.
  • Indicating want or poverty of nourishment; gaunt; famished.
  • Marked by scarcity of food or a famished condition; necessitating nourishment.
  • Not rich or fertile; poor; barren.
  • Fit only to satisfy great hunger.
  • Stingy; mean.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous
  • adj. feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food
  • Equivalent
    wishful    desirous    starved    ravenous    empty-bellied    famished    esurient    empty    peckish    supperless   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    hungrier    hungriest   
    Form
    hungrily    hungriness   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    voracious    poor    barren    starved    famished    peckish    starving   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    angry    eager    sick    young    ugly    greedy