Synonyms for hungry
ˈhʌŋ grihun·g·ry

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1. hungryadjective

   Synonyms:
   peckish, famished, starving

2. hungryadjective

   affected by hunger; desirous of food; having a physical need for food.

   Synonyms:
   peckish, starving, famished

3. hungryadjective

   eager, having an avid desire ('appetite') for something.

   Synonyms:
   famished, peckish, starving

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1. hungryadjective

   feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food

   "a world full of hungry people"

   Synonyms:
   hungry(p), athirst(p), thirsty(p)

   Antonyms:
   undesiring, thirsty, undesirous

2. athirst(p), hungry(p), thirsty(p)adjective

   (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous

   "athirst for knowledge"; "hungry for recognition"; "thirsty for informaton"

   Antonyms:
   undesirous, undesiring, thirsty

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1. hungryadjective

   Synonyms:
   craving (for food), famishing, ravenous, sharp-set

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1. hungryadjective

   Synonyms:
   voracious, ravenous, eager, starved, depleted, infertile, barren

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1. List of paraphrases for "hungry":

   faim, hunger, starving, starvation, starve, ravenous, appetite, starved, munchies, fame

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1. Wildlife Service spokeswoman Lori Iverson:

   They're tired, cold (and) hungry but otherwise healthy and happy to be on their way out.

2. Jakob Kern:

   This marks a major humanitarian breakthrough in Syria, but we must remember that one-off and sporadic convoys can only provide temporary relief to hungry, desperate people, people need to eat every single day.

3. Tiger Woods:

   No. I just finished 72 holes and really hungry.

4. Barron Segar:

   There's enough food between corn maize and wheat and oil that's stored in silos or on container ships in Ukraine to feed 400 million people, imagine if we can't get that food to those who are starving, to those who are hungry.

5. Dick Durbin:

   Given the stark racial disparities in our criminal justice system, this would cause the most harm to Black and brown families and communities already harmed by mass incarceration, children should not be forced to go hungry because a parent is incarcerated.