Hungry

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hungry \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.
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     2. Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious.
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              The cruel, hungry foam.               --C. Kingsley.
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              Cassius has a lean and hungry look.   --Shak.
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     3. Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry
        soil. "The hungry beach." --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hungry
       adj 1: feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food; "a
              world full of hungry people" [ant: {thirsty}]
       2: (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous; "athirst for
          knowledge"; "hungry for recognition"; "thirsty for
          informaton" [syn: {athirst(p)}, {hungry(p)}, {thirsty(p)}]
       [also: {hungriest}, {hungrier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "hungry":
     acquisitive, athirst, avid, consumed with desire, coveting,
     covetous, craving, deprived, desirous, devoured by desire,
     dog-hungry, dying, eager, empty, famished, famishing, fasting,
     fervid, greedy, half-famished, half-starved, hankering, hollow,
     hungering, insatiable, itching, keen, longing, mad with lust,
     peckish, pinched with hunger, prurient, rapacious, ravening,
     ravenous, sharp-set, starved, starving, thirsting, thirsty,
     unfilled, voracious, wolfish, yearning