hungry
[huhng-gree]
adjective, hun·gri·er, hun·gri·est.
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
Synonyms for 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 for hungry
1. sated, satiated, surfeited.
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Contemporary Examples of hungrily
Historical Examples of hungrily
Percival read them all hungrily, disregarding those that did not confirm his own opinions.
The SpendersHarry Leon Wilson
No other woman since the world began had been so fit for love, had yearned for it so hungrily.
The Bacillus of BeautyHarriet Stark
Hungrily I peered after them up the long cavernous docksheds.
The HarborErnest Poole
"Sure, an' I've a mind to reach up there an' grab that sandwich," he said hungrily.
A Yankee Flier Over BerlinAl Avery
Her own mouth, for that matter, had taken his kisses--and hungrily, or he was no judge of kissing.
NobodyLouis Joseph Vance
hungry
adjective -grier or -griest
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