Definitions for: Hungry


[adj] feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food; "a world full of hungry people"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

2. Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious.

The cruel, hungry foam. --C. Kingsley.

Cassius has a lean and hungry look. --Shak.

3. Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry
soil. ``The hungry beach.'' --Shak.

Synonyms: empty, empty-bellied, esurient, famished, peckish, ravenous, sharp-set, starved, supperless

Antonyms: thirsty

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