About The Word Hungry
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Hungry
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What's The Definition Of Hungry?
[adj] feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food; "a world full of hungry people"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Hungry: empty | empty-bellied | esurient | famished | peckish | ravenous | sharp-set | starved | supperless Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 See Also | Hungry In Webster's Dictionary \Hun"gry\, a. [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.
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