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)
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. - 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 - 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. - 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. - SPENDER
One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift. - 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. - UNPEDIGREED
Not distinguished by a pedigree. Pollok. - INGREAT
To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby. - REGREDE
To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit. Todhunter. - AMBERGREASE
See AMBERGRIS