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[syn: athirst(p), hungry(p), thirsty(p)]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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)]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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