hungry Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food
    • a world full of hungry people
  2. adjective satellite (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous
    athirst; thirsty.
    • athirst for knowledge
    • hungry for recognition
    • thirsty for informaton

WordNet

Hun"gry adjective
Etymology
AS. hungrid. See Hunger.
Wordforms
comparative Hungrier ; superlative Hungriest
Definitions
  1. Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.
  2. Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious.
    The cruel, hungry foam. C. Kingsley.
    Cassius has a lean and hungry look. Shak.
  3. Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil. "The hungry beach." Shak.

Webster 1913