Word Type

Adjective

Adjective

The word "hungry" can be used as adjective and adjective.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

thirsty

Capable Of

need food

Causes Desire

cook dinner have food

Derived Terms

Hungry Ghost Festival I'm hungry a hungry man is an angry man ahungry anhungry bloodhungry cumhungry drungry go hungry hangry horngry hungries hungrify hungrily hungriness hungrisome hungry as a hog hungry gap hungry ghost hungry like the wolf hungry rice money-hungry nonhungry overhungry power-hungry stay hungry superhungry thungry unhungrily unhungry warhungry

Derived From

hunger

Last Subevents

eat

Subevents

find food to eat finding to eat

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

appetited desirous

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

famished hangry hungry as a hog hungry like the wolf peckish ravenous starved starving voracious

Related Terms

I am hungry I could eat a brick I could eat a horse craving eat like a horse eat like a pig greedy money-hungry scarf scarf down thirsty wolf wolf down

Related Terms

barren desire eager fertile hunger i am hungry poor rich starved thirsty

Similar Terms

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

Synonym Network

athirst famished starving

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.