hungryadjective
uk/ˈhʌŋ.ɡri/us/ˈhʌŋ.ɡri/hungry adjective (NEEDING FOOD)
A1 wanting or needing food:
By four o'clock I felt/was really hungry.
The children are always hungry when they get home from school.
There are too many hungry people (= people without enough to eat) in the world.
She often goes hungry herself (= does not eat) so that her children can have enough to eat.
Digging the garden is hungry work (= makes you feel hunger).
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- I think it's a sin to waste food, when so many people in the world are hungry.
- I was hoping there'd be some food - I'm a bit hungry.
- The kids kept on about how hungry they were, so their father gave them some biscuits to shut them up.
- The baby had a feed an hour ago, so she can't be hungry.
- When our cat is hungry, she starts clawing at my legs.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Hungry & thirsty
- (I'm so hungry), I could eat a horse idiom
- appetite
- be gasping idiom
- eat
- eat like a horse idiom
- empty
- gasp
- hunger
- make sb's mouth water idiom
- munchies
- on an empty stomach idiom
- smack
- smack your lips idiom
- starvation
- starved
- starving
- thirst
- thirsty
- unquenchable
- voracious
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hungry adjective (WANTING)
C2 having a strong wish or desire for something:
She was so hungry for success that she'd do anything to achieve it.
Journalists were hungry for details.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Wanting things
- ache for sth
- acquisitive
- ambitious
- angle
- angle for sth
- aspirant
- burn
- fancy
- finger
- hang the cost/expense idiom
- hanker after/for sth
- have your eye on sth idiom
- hunger
- hunger after/for sth
- shook
- sight
- sth is calling you idiom
- straw
- tempt
- think big idiom
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hungrily
adverb uk/ˈhʌŋ.ɡrəl.i/us/ˈhʌŋ.ɡrəl.i/
They sat down and ate hungrily.
He looked at her hungrily (= showing desire for her).