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Definitions for Hungry

[1] having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
[2] indicating, characteristic of, or characterized by hunger: He approached the table with a hungry look.
[3] strongly or eagerly desirous.
[4] lacking needful or desirable elements; not fertile; poor: hungry land.
[5] marked by a scarcity of food: The depression years were hungry times.
[6] Informal . aggressively ambitious or competitive, as from a need to overcome poverty or past defeats: a hungry investment firm looking for wealthy clients.
[7] desiring food
[8] experiencing pain, weakness, or nausea through lack of food
[9] (postpositive foll by for ) having a craving, desire, or need (for)
[10] expressing or appearing to express greed, craving, or desire
[11] lacking fertility; poor
[12] Australian and NZ informal greedy; grasping stingy; mean
[13] NZ (of timber) dry and bare

Words related to Hungry

eager, keen, greedy, ravenous, avid, carnivorous, covetous, craving, empty, famished, hankering, hollow, omnivorous, rapacious, unfilled, unsatisfied, voracious, yearning, athirst, edacious

Words nearby Hungry

hunger strike, hunger-strike, hungerly, hungnam, hungover, hungry, hungtow island, hunk, hunker, hunkers, hunkpapa

Origin of Hungry

before 950; Middle English, Old English hungrig. See hunger, -y1

Words that may be confused with Hungry

Hungary, hungry, (see, synonym, study, at, the, current, entry)

Other words from Hungry

hun·gri·ly , adverb
hun·gri·ness , noun

Synonyms for Hungry

eager, greedy, keen, ravenous, starved, athirst, avid, carnivorous, could eat a horse, covetous, craving, edacious, empty, esurient, famished, famishing, flying light, got the munchies, hankering, hoggish, hollow, hungered, insatiate, omnivorous, on empty stomach, piggish, rapacious, unfilled, unsatisfied, voracious, yearning