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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hungry \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.
1913 webster
2. showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious.
1913 webster
the cruel, hungry foam. --c. kingsley.
1913 webster
cassius has a lean and hungry look. --shak.
1913 webster
3. not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry
soil. "the hungry beach." --shak.
1913 webster
see also:
hungrier hungriest hunger
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
hungry
adj 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: athirstp, hungryp, thirstyp
also: hungriest, hungrier
see also:
thirsty athirstp hungryp thirstyp hungriest hungrier
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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