hungry

About 11.26 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.

   My kids go to bed hungry every night because I haven’t got much money for food.

2. adjective Causing hunger.

   All this gardening is hungry work.

3. adjective Eager; having an avid desire or appetite for something.

   young and hungry

4. adjective Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.

   a hungry soil

Similar words

peckish famished esurient sharp-set starved ravenous thirsty athirst desirous empty

Often followed by

and for as or people to man men in

Word family

hungrier hungriest hungrily hungriness hungrinesses