 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
hungry
adjective
1: feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food; "a
world full of hungry people" [ant: {thirsty}]
2: (usually followed by 'for') extremely desirous; "athirst for
knowledge"; "hungry for recognition"; "thirsty for
informaton" [syn: {athirst(p)}, {hungry(p)}, {thirsty(p)}]
[also: {hungriest}, {hungrier}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hungry \Hun"gry\, adjective [Compar. {Hungrier}; superl. {Hungriest}.]
[AS. hungrid. See {Hunger}.]
1. Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness
or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager
desire.
2. Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious.
The cruel, hungry foam. --C. Kingsley.
Cassius has a lean and hungry look. --Shak.
3. Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry
soil. ''The hungry beach.'' --Shak.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "hungry":
acquisitive, athirst, avid, consumed with desire, coveting,
covetous, craving, deprived, desirous, devoured by desire,
dog-hungry, dying, eager, empty, famished, famishing, fasting,
fervid, greedy, half-famished, half-starved, hankering, hollow,
hungering, insatiable, itching, keen, longing, mad with lust,
peckish, pinched with hunger, prurient, rapacious, ravening,
ravenous, sharp-set, starved, starving, thirsting, thirsty,
unfilled, voracious, wolfish, yearning
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