Word Meanings - HUNGRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Additional info about word: HUNGRY

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HUNGRY)

• Gaunt
• Grim
• savage
• lean
• lank
• hungry
• thin
• spare
• attenuated
• emaciated
• Greed
• Gluttonous
• voracious
• desirous
• avaricious
• Ravenous
• Voracious
• gluttonous
• rapacious
• omnivorous
• Starved
• Lean
• meagre
• famished
• ill-fed
• ill-conditioned
• Hungry
• absorbent
• ravenous
• insatiate
• gormandizing

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HUNGRY)

• Spend
• squander
• waste
• lavish
• scatter
• expend
• pour
• indulge
• vent

Related words: (words related to HUNGRY)

• ATTENUATION
  1. The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation. 2. The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases. 3. The process of weakening in intensity; diminution
• GREENLANDER
  A native of Greenland.
• GREETING
  Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent. Write to him . . . gentle adieus and greetings. Shak. Syn. -- Salutation; salute; compliment.
• GREENLET
  l. One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love ; the warbling greenlet ; the yellow-throated greenlet and others. See Vireo. 2. Any species
• GRENADO
  See GRENADE
• ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
  1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon.
• RAVENOUS
  1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. 2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- Rav"en*ous*ly, adv. -- Rav"en*ous*ness, n.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• GREENSAND
  A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. Note: Greensand is often called marl, because
• LAVISHNESS
  The quality or state of being lavish.
• GREENFISH
  See POLLOCK
• GREENOCKITE
  Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• HUNGRY
  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.
• SPENDTHRIFT
  One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• LAVISHER
  One who lavishes.
• GREENHOUSE
  A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
• GREENWEED
  See GREENBROOM
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• ARM-GRET
  Great as a man's arm. A wreath of gold, arm-gret. Chaucer.
• AGGREGATOR
  One who aggregates.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• SANGRAAL; SANGREAL
  See GRAIL
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• UNPEDIGREED
  Not distinguished by a pedigree. Pollok.
• REGREDE
  To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit. Todhunter.
• AMBERGREASE
  See AMBERGRIS
• RETROGRESS
  Retrogression. H. Spenser.