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hungry

adjective

1 hungry

Feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food.

Roget 956: lenten, quadragesimal; unfed; starved etc. v.; half-starved; fasting etc. v.; hungry etc. 865.   

Polish: głodny

2 hungry

usually followed by `for' Extremely desirous:
— Hungry for recognition.

synonyms: athirst, thirsty.

Roget 865: desirous; desiring etc. v.; inclined etc. (willing) 602; partial to; fain, wishful, optative; anxious, ... show more

Polish: łakomy, łasy, chciwy, głodny, żądny, niesyty, żądliwy, spragniony, wygłodniały, złakniony


Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.

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