hungry

Adjective

• Feeling or showing the need for food.
• feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food
  • "a world full of hungry people"

Adjective Satellite

• (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous
  • "hungry for recognition"

Adj

• Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
• Causing hunger.
• Eager; having an avid desire or appetite for something.
• Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.

Examples

• a hungry soil
• All this gardening is hungry work.
• He was so hungry he could eat two burgers.
• I woke up very hungry and made some toast.
• My kids go to bed hungry every night because I haven’t got much money for food.
• The hungry player devoured the remaining tiles, hoping for a high-value letter.
• the students are hungry to learn
• young and hungry

Synonyms

athirst, thirsty, famished, gaunted, hungerful, hungry, peckish, starving

Antonyms

thirsty, full, gorged, nonhungry, sated, satiated, stuffed, unhungry

Related Words

I am hungry, I could eat a brick, I could eat a horse, craving, eat like a horse, eat like a pig, greedy, money-hungry, scarf, scarf down, thirsty, wolf, wolf down, HUNGRILY