Meaning of HUNGRY
| Pronunciation: | | 'hunggree
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| | Definition: | | [adj] feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food; "a world full of hungry people" |
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| | Synonyms: | | empty, empty-bellied, esurient, famished, peckish, ravenous, sharp-set, starved, supperless |
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| | Antonyms: | | thirsty | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | 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.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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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