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. [1913 Webster] 2. Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious. [1913 Webster] The cruel, hungry foam. --C. Kingsley. [1913 Webster] Cassius has a lean and hungry look. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil. "The hungry beach." --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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
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