What is "hungry" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does hungry mean in English? Meaning of hungry definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "hungry" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "hungry": feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food

Adjective

  • Meaning: feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food
  • Example: a world full of hungry people
  • Synonyms: hungry
  • Antonyms: thirsty
  • Similar: empty empty-bellied esurient famished peckish ravenous sharp-set starved supperless
  • Meaning of "hungry": (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous

    Adjective

  • Meaning: (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous
  • Example: athirst for knowledge hungry for recognition thirsty for informaton
  • Synonyms: athirst hungry thirsty
  • Similar: desirous wishful
  • Adjective: Affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food. My kids go to bed hungry every night because I haven't got any money.(figuratively) Eager, having an avid desire ('appetite') for something. Charles Kingsley The cruel, hungry foam. Shakespeare Cassius has a lean and hungry look.Charles Kingsley The cruel, hungry foam.Shakespeare Cassius has a lean and hungry look.Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved. a hungry soil Shakespeare The hungry beach.Shakespeare The hungry beach.
  • Synonyms:

    eager, keen, greedy, starved, ravenous, avid, carnivorous, covetous, craving, empty, famished, hankering, hollow, omnivorous, rapacious, unfilled, unsatisfied, voracious, yearning, athirst, edacious, hoggish, piggish, could eat a horse, esurient, famishing, flying light, got the munchies, hungered, insatiate, on empty stomach,

    Antonyms:

    replete, satisfied, stuffed, unenthusiastic, full, satiated,

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    hungry in English: hungry
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