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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food;
- Example: "a world full of hungry people"

2. (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous;
- Example: "athirst for knowledge"
- Example: "hungry for recognition"
- Example: "thirsty for informaton"
[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. [1913 Webster] 2. Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious. [1913 Webster] The cruel, hungry foam. --C. Kingsley. [1913 Webster] Cassius has a lean and hungry look. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil. "The hungry beach." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
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