hungry
[ huhng-gree ]
/ ˈhʌŋ gri /
adjective, hun·gri·er, hun·gri·est.
having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
indicating, characteristic of, or characterized by hunger: He approached the table with a hungry look.
strongly or eagerly desirous.
lacking needful or desirable elements; not fertile; poor: hungry land.
marked by a scarcity of food: The depression years were hungry times.
Informal.
aggressively ambitious or competitive, as from a need to overcome poverty or past defeats: a hungry investment firm looking for wealthy clients.
SYNONYMS FOR hungry
1
ravenous, famishing, starving.
Hungry,
famished,
starved describe a condition resulting from a lack of food.
Hungry is a general word, expressing various degrees of eagerness or craving for food:
hungry between meals; desperately hungry after a long fast; hungry as a bear.
Famished denotes the condition of one reduced to actual suffering from want of food, but sometimes is used lightly or in an exaggerated statement:
famished after being lost in a wilderness; simply famished (
hungry ).
Starved denotes a condition resulting from long-continued lack or insufficiency of food, and implies enfeeblement, emaciation, or death (originally death from any cause, but now death from lack of food):
He looks thin and starved. By the end of the terrible winter, thousands had starved (
to death ). It is also used as a humorous exaggeration:
I only had two sandwiches, pie, and some milk, so I'm simply starved (
hungry ).
OTHER WORDS FROM hungry
hun·gri·ly, adverb hun·gri·ness, nounWORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH hungry
Hungary hungry (see synonym study at the current entry)Words nearby hungry
hunger strike,
hunger-strike,
hungerly,
hungnam,
hungover,
hungry,
hungtow island,
hunk,
hunker,
hunker down,
hunkers
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British Dictionary definitions for hungrily
hungry
/ (ˈhʌŋɡrɪ) /