Nearby Words
adjective -gri·er, -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.
EXPANDmarked by a scarcity of food: The depression years were hungry times.
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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Hungry
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
Example Sentences
- When you're tired and hungry between meals, it's probably because your blood sugar level is low.
- If words were food, nobody would go hungry.
- You've got to be hungry to succeed as an entrepreneur.
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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