Entry Word: hungry

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 feeling a desire or need for food <John was still hungry after eating only a muffin for breakfast>

Synonyms empty, famished, starved, starving

Related Words rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wolfish; malnourished, underfed, undernourished; gluttonous, gormandizing, greedy, hoggish, insatiable, piggish

Near Antonyms engorged, glutted, gorged, overfed, overfull, replete, sated, satiated, stuffed, surfeited

Antonyms full, satisfied

2 showing urgent desire or interest <hungry for the latest news> — see eager