hungry

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)}]
    

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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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