hungry

Speech parts

1. hungry - Adjective

3. hungry - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.

Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious.

Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

keen eager avid starved starving longing craving thirsty voracious desirous ravenous famished yearning peckish athirst
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Antonyms

dietetic herbivore full cool fat passive
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Phrases with the word

I am hungry as hungry as a beast as hungry as a hog as hungry as a schoolboy as hungry as wolf as hungry as a wolf

Derivatives

hungrier hungriest

Examples

It is not the well-fed long-haired man I fear, but the pale and the hungry looking. Julius Caesar

Prayer is food for the soul. Do not starve the soul, it is better to let the body go hungry. Do not judge anyone, forgive everyone. Consider yourself worse than everyone in the world and you will be saved. As much as possible, be more quiet. Joseph of Optina

Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. Jack London

Don't let an angry man wash dishes; don't let a hungry man guard rice. Cambodian Proverb

Only the man who is not hungry says the coconut has a hard shell. Ethiopian Proverb

He who sits waiting for his neighbor will go to bed hungry. Persian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

hungrily hungriness hungrisome hungry as a bear hungry as a beast hungry as a hog