hungry
[adjective]
Synonyms:
- empty, famished, peckish (informal, chiefly Brit.), ravenous, starved, starving, voracious
- eager, athirst, avid, covetous, craving, desirous, greedy, keen, yearning

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Antonyms: surfeited
Contrasted words: full, glutted, gorged, sated, satiated
Related Words: rapacious, voracious

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English Thesaurus: hungry, peckish, starving/ravenous, famished, I could eat a horse!, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

hun‧gry S2 /ˈhʌŋɡri/ adjective (comparative hungrier, superlative hungriest)
[Word Family: noun: hunger; adverb: hungrily; adjective: hungry]

1. wanting to eat something ⇒ thirsty:
I was cold, tired, and hungry.
If you get hungry, there’s some cold chicken in the fridge.
Do you still feel hungry?

2. ill or weak as a result of not having enough to eat for a long time:
We can’t justify wasting food when half the world is hungry.

3. go hungry to not have enough to eat:
Thousands of families go hungry every day.

4. wanting or needing something very much Synonym : eager
hungry for
She is hungry for success.
hungry to do something
Stan was hungry to learn.

5. the hungry [plural] people who do not have enough food to eat

6. power-hungry/news-hungry etc wanting power, news etc very much:
a power-hungry politician

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

hungry
adj.
VERBS be, feel, go, look the number of children who have to go hungry
become, get | make sb Seeing everyone eating had made him extremely hungry.
ADV. desperately, dreadfully, extremely, ravenously, really, starving (informal), terribly, very We were all ravenously hungry after the walk.
a bit, quite, rather | always, permanently

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

hungry wanting to eat something:
We were really hungry after our long walk.
It’s hard work cooking for a bunch of hungry kids.
peckish [not before noun] British English informal a little hungry:
I’m feeling a bit peckish. What’s in the fridge?
starving/ravenous /ˈrævənəs/ (also starved American English) [not before noun] spoken very hungry and wanting to eat as soon as possible:
I missed lunch and I’m absolutely starving.
Sam’s always ravenous when he gets home from school.
famished very hungry. Famished is less common and sounds a little more formal than starving or ravenous:
Everyone was famished by the time they arrived.
I could eat a horse! spoken used to say that you are very hungry:
‘Are you hungry?’ ‘Yeah, I could eat a horse.’
appetite the desire for food that you have when you are hungry:
Exercise usually gives me an appetite.
It’s healthy to have a good appetite.
starving not having had enough food for a long time and likely to die soon without food:
Because of the drought, millions of people were starving.
the starving refugees from the war
malnourished formal unhealthy and thin because you have not had the right kinds of food over a long period of time:
According to the report, one-fifth of the world’s population are malnourished.
malnourished infants

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