hungry
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gri adjective, hun·gri·er, hun·gri·est.
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.
Related forms
hun·gri·ly, adverb
hun·gri·ness, noun
Synonyms
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 ).
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 ).
Antonyms
1. sated, satiated, surfeited.
1. sated, satiated, surfeited.
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| —adj (foll by for) , -grier, -griest | |
| 1. | desiring food |
| 2. | experiencing pain, weakness, or nausea through lack of food |
| 3. | having a craving, desire, or need (for) |
| 4. | expressing or appearing to express greed, craving, or desire |
| 5. | lacking fertility; poor |
| 6. | informal (Austral), (NZ) |
| a. greedy; grasping | |
| b. stingy; mean | |
| 7. | (NZ) (of timber) dry and bare |
| 'hungrily | |
| —adv | |
| 'hungeringly | |
| —adv | |
| 'hungriness | |
| —n | |
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Example sentences
Wild animals come to us when they are hungry or starving or they have dropped out of their nest and they need food.
He also served several hundred hungry science fiction fans.
Images of food riots and hungry people stir deep emotions.
Today's soldiers are more power hungry than ever, and the army believes flexible solar cells can provide the extra juice.
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