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hungry Meaning
hungry (a)
feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food
hungry (s)
(usually followed by `for') extremely desirous
hungry (superl.)
Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.
Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious.
Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil.
hungry Sentence Examples
- The starving child's stomach rumbled with hunger, demanding sustenance.
- After a long day of hiking, I was ravenously hungry and unable to resist the smell of sizzling burgers.
- The aroma of freshly baked bread wafted through the air, tantalizing my hunger.
- The wolf howled in the distance, its piercing cry driven by hunger.
- The hungry wanderer stumbled upon a meager meal, his gratitude overwhelming.
- Fear gnawed at their bellies as hunger threatened to consume them in the unforgiving wilderness.
- The dog barked at the mailman with a mixture of hunger and territorial instinct.
- Poverty and famine left countless people hunger-stricken, their bodies emaciated and weak.
- The thought of a juicy steak made my mouth water with hunger.
- Desperation forced them to scavenge for food, their hunger overriding all sense of dignity.
FAQs About the word hungry
feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food, (usually followed by `for') extremely desirousFeeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness o
starving, starved, peckish, ravenous,famished, underfed, voracious, undernourished, piggish, gluttonous
sated, satiated,satisfied, full, sated, satisfied, satiated, full, replete,overfed
The starving child's stomach rumbled with hunger, demanding sustenance.
After a long day of hiking, I was ravenously hungry and unable to resist the smell of sizzling burgers.
The aroma of freshly baked bread wafted through the air, tantalizing my hunger.
The wolf howled in the distance, its piercing cry driven by hunger.
