Synonyms of hungry

hungry

adjective

ˈhəŋ-grē 

1

as in starving

feeling a desire or need for food

John was still hungry after eating only a muffin for breakfast

Synonyms & Similar Words

• starving
• starved
• famished
• peckish
• ravenous
• empty
• malnourished
• voracious
• undernourished
• underfed
• wolfish
• insatiable
• rapacious
• greedy
• gluttonous
• piggy
• piggish
• hoggish
• gormandizing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• satisfied
• satiated
• sated
• full
• overfed
• stuffed
• glutted
• overstuffed
• satiate
• engorged
• gorged
• surfeited
• overfull
• replete

2

as in excited

showing urgent desire or interest

hungry for the latest news

Synonyms & Similar Words

• excited
• enthusiastic
• avid
• eager
• anxious
• thirsty
• keen
• impatient
• pumped
• ardent
• greedy
• voracious
• happy
• desirous
• enthused
• interested
• antsy
• nuts
• ready
• solicitous
• gung ho
• juiced
• crazy
• athirst
• stoked
• great
• geeked
• agog
• wild
• raring
• hot
• willing
• chomping at the bit
• champing at the bit
• hopped-up
• bonkers
• gaga
• hepped up
• engaged
• obsessed
• longing
• craving
• restless
• ambitious
• glad
• covetous
• pining
• restive
• breathless
• hankering
• game
• disposed
• inclined
• hung up
• amenable
• appetent
• unreluctant

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• indifferent
• apathetic
• uninterested
• unenthusiastic
• unconcerned
• disinterested
• casual
• nonchalant
• incurious
• aloof
• detached
• reluctant
• insouciant
• unwilling
• uneager
• impassive
• lukewarm
• stolid
• hesitant
• spiritless
• lackadaisical
• languid
• halfhearted
• languorous
• loath
• averse
• disinclined

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of hungry

The feeding center where Tarek and other children are recovering is struggling to cope with a rise in patients in a country where many already were hungry, Atef said. — Fatma Khaled, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026

The carving of this ham interspersed with the discovery of the Black Dahlia’s body officially has me no longer hungry. — Emma Specter, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2026

Perry Farrell began the Lollapalooza Tour that summer, proving there was a hungry young audience of alternateen kids fiending for upstarts like Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, and Perry’s band Jane’s Addiction. — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2026

Navatek had been eager to expand beyond Hawaii, and Maine was a perfect beachhead — a small, coastal state hungry for high-tech jobs that happened to be represented by a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee. — William Turton, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2026