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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HUN'GRY, a. Having a keen appetite; feeling pain or uneasiness from want of food. Eat only when you are hungry.
1. Having an eager desire.
2. Lean; emaciated, as if reduced by hunger.
Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
3. Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; requiring substances to enrich itself; as a hungry soil; a hungry gravel.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food; "a world full of hungry people" [ant: thirsty]
2: (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous; "athirst for knowledge"; "hungry for recognition"; "thirsty for informaton" [syn: athirst, hungry, thirsty]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (hungrier; -est) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hungrig; akin to Old English hungor Date: before 12th century 1. a. feeling hunger b. characterized by or characteristic of hunger or appetite 2. a. eager, avid <hungry for affection> b. strongly motivated (as by ambition) 3. not rich or fertile ; barren • hungrily adverb • hungriness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (hungrier, hungriest) 1 feeling or showing hunger; needing food. 2 inducing hunger (a hungry air). 3 a eager, greedy, craving. b Austral. mean, stingy. 4 (of soil) poor, barren. Derivatives: hungrily adv. hungriness n. Etymology: OE hungrig (as HUNGER)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hungry Hun"gry, a. [Compar. Hungrier; superl. Hungriest.] [AS. hungrid. See Hunger.] 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(hungrier, hungriest) 1. When you are hungry, you want some food because you have not eaten for some time and have an uncomfortable or painful feeling in your stomach. My friend was hungry, so we drove to a shopping mall to get some food... ? full ADJ • hungrily James ate hungrily. ADV: ADV with v 2. If people go hungry, they do not have enough food to eat. Leonidas' family had been poor, he went hungry for years. PHRASE: V inflects 3. If you say that someone is hungry for something, you are emphasizing that they want it very much. (LITERARY) I left Oxford in 1961 hungry to be a critic. = eager ADJ: usu v-link ADJ for n, v-link ADJ to-inf [emphasis] • Hungry is also a combining form. ...power-hungry politicians. COMB in ADJ • hungrily He looked at her hungrily. What eyes! What skin! ADV: ADV with v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Craving (food), of keen appetite, sharp-set, in want of food, famishing (by hyperbole), ravenous. 2. Longing, in painful desire, eagerly desirous. 3. Poor, barren, unfertile, unproductive.

Moby Thesaurus

acquisitive, athirst, avid, consumed with desire, coveting, covetous, craving, deprived, desirous, devoured by desire, dog-hungry, dying, eager, empty, famished, famishing, fasting, fervid, greedy, half-famished, half-starved, hankering, hollow, hungering, insatiable, itching, keen, longing, mad with lust, peckish, pinched with hunger, prurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, sharp-set, starved, starving, thirsting, thirsty, unfilled, voracious, wolfish, yearning