hungry
having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
indicating, characteristic of, or characterized by hunger: He approached the table with a hungry look.
strongly or eagerly desirous.
lacking needful or desirable elements; not fertile; poor: hungry land.
marked by a scarcity of food: The depression years were hungry times.
Informal. aggressively ambitious or competitive, as from a need to overcome poverty or past defeats: a hungry investment firm looking for wealthy clients.
Origin of hungry
1synonym study For hungry
Other words for hungry
1 | ravenous, famishing, starving |
Opposites for hungry
1 | sated, satiated, surfeited |
Other words from hungry
- hun·gri·ly, adverb
- hun·gri·ness, noun
Words Nearby hungry
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How to use hungry in a sentence
Covid-19 plunged the United States into a recession, leaving millions of Americans out of work and hungry.
Covid-19 caused a recession. So why did the housing market boom? | Jerusalem Demsas | February 5, 2021 | VoxIn other words, if students stay at home, some will be more vulnerable and more hungry and more isolated.
The Learning Curve: Is It Vaccines for All or No School? | Will Huntsberry | February 4, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoThe biggest takeaway from the research, however, was less about the hungry sea creatures and more about the underwater recorders.
Listen to the soothing sounds of a snacking stingray | Purbita Saha | February 4, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThat low-power system, however, is meant more for smaller, less power-hungry devices like smart locks and security sensors.
Xiaomi’s long-range wireless charger shows a glimpse of a cord-free future | Stan Horaczek | February 1, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe enormous datasets compiled to feed these data-hungry algorithms capture everything on the internet.
An AI saw a cropped photo of AOC. It autocompleted her wearing a bikini. | Karen Hao | January 29, 2021 | MIT Technology Review
The city protests that a beach is not a suitable place to feed the hungry.
Springsteen originally wrote his first big hit, “hungry Heart,” for the Ramones.
‘All Good Cretins Go to Heaven’: Dee Dee Ramone’s Twisted Punk Paintings | Melissa Leon | December 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe's dazzling, fielding questions, spinning out anecdotes and limericks, sounding 35 and hungry for publicity.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd to do that, you have to forget that you have been hungry, too.
The Stacks: A Chicken Dinner That Mends Your Heart | Pete Dexter | December 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI managed to keep the salad down, but I left the restaurant hungry.
And he had waited so long for Grandfather Mole that he had begun to feel hungry again.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole | Arthur Scott BaileyWe make fast the doors of our lighted houses against the indigent and the hungry.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockThat was because he was hungry, you see, but pigs nearly always eat fast, as though they were continually in a hurry.
Squinty the Comical Pig | Richard Barnum“Mon pauvre petit, you are hungry,” said Aristide, carrying it to the car racked by the clattering engine.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. LockeA very little crust thrown to the very hungry is always accepted with gratitude.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James Wills
British Dictionary definitions for hungry
/ (ˈhʌŋɡrɪ) /
desiring food
experiencing pain, weakness, or nausea through lack of food
(postpositive foll by for) having a craving, desire, or need (for)
expressing or appearing to express greed, craving, or desire
lacking fertility; poor
Australian and NZ informal
greedy; grasping
stingy; mean
NZ (of timber) dry and bare
Derived forms of hungry
- hungrily or hungeringly, adverb
- hungriness, noun
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