Hungry

/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/

Synonyms for "hungry" (70 found)

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Closest matches (14)

acquisitive athirst avidconsumed with desirecoveting covetous craving deprived desirousdevoured by desiredog-hungry

Adjective(3 words)

ambitious personathirst desirous

Strong matches (21)

dying eager empty enterprising famished famishing fasting fervid greedy half-famished half-starved hankering hollow

Adjective(6 words)

eager famishedfood insecure peoplehunger suffererhunger victimhunger victims

Adjective(2 words)

gaunted hungerful

Related words (35)

hungering insatiable itching keen longingmad with lustpeckishpinched with hungerprurient rapacious ravening ravenous sharp-set starved starving thirsting thirsty unfilled voracious wolfish

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yearning

Adjective(13 words)

hungrier hungriest keenopportunity seekerpeckish ravenousresource seekerstarvation victimsstarving supperlessthe hungrythirstier thirsty

Verb(1 words)

salivating

Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

11 entries

bodily stateemotional stategroup human individual people personphysiological statepopulationpsychological statestate of appetite

More specific

14 entries

ambitious entrepreneurcareer climbercraving desire famishedhungry adulthungry childhungry childrenhungry elderlyhungry refugeesopportunity seekerpeckish ravenous urge

Collocations

10 entries

chronically hungryhungry childrenhungry for knowledgehungry for powerhungry lookhungry personhungry populationhungry refugeeshungry studentsthe hungry

Inflections

2 entries

hungrier hungriest

Derivations

3 entries

hunger hungrily hungriness

Antonyms

1 entries

thirsty

similar

11 entries

desirous empty empty-bellied esurient famished peckish ravenous sharp-set starved supperless wishful

Sample sentences

21 total sentences available.

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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Source: tatoeba (1856)

When are we eating? I'm hungry!

Source: tatoeba (2073)

I suppose you're hungry.

Source: tatoeba (16196)

You can't be hungry. You've just had dinner.

Source: tatoeba (17882)

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