Synonyms for hungry
ˈhʌŋ grihun·g·ry

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1. hungryadjective

   Synonyms:
   peckish, famished, starving

2. hungryadjective

   affected by hunger; desirous of food; having a physical need for food.

   Synonyms:
   peckish, starving, famished

3. hungryadjective

   eager, having an avid desire ('appetite') for something.

   Synonyms:
   famished, peckish, starving

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1. hungryadjective

   feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food

   "a world full of hungry people"

   Synonyms:
   hungry(p), athirst(p), thirsty(p)

   Antonyms:
   undesiring, thirsty, undesirous

2. athirst(p), hungry(p), thirsty(p)adjective

   (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous

   "athirst for knowledge"; "hungry for recognition"; "thirsty for informaton"

   Antonyms:
   undesirous, undesiring, thirsty

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1. hungryadjective

   Synonyms:
   craving (for food), famishing, ravenous, sharp-set

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1. hungryadjective

   Synonyms:
   voracious, ravenous, eager, starved, depleted, infertile, barren

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1. List of paraphrases for "hungry":

   faim, hunger, starving, starvation, starve, ravenous, appetite, starved, munchies, fame

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1. Kim Scheppele:

   What Trump figured out -- the autocrats that I study, like Orban in Hungry, Erdogan in Turkey and Bolsonaro in Brazil, they all do this -- they operate in this space where no law actually prohibits, but soft norms govern. And because there is no law, it's hard to hold them to account. That's how democracies collapse.

2. Bernie Sanders:

   Tonight, many of us are going to give our support to a candidate for president who has done more than any other candidate in living memory to bring together the disenfranchised, the hungry, the poor, the workers who are being thrown out of their decent-paying jobs and the farmers who are being thrown off of their land, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to place for nomination this evening the name of one of the great leaders of our time and a man who has waged the most courageous and exciting political campaigns in the modern history of this nation. I place for nomination, with a great deal of personal pride, the name of Jesse Jackson.

3. Eric Hoffer:

   People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.

4. Pooja Bhandari:

   No water. No light. I am hungry. No drinking water. No sleeping well. Very disturbed.

5. Dick Durbin:

   Given the stark racial disparities in our criminal justice system, this would cause the most harm to Black and brown families and communities already harmed by mass incarceration, children should not be forced to go hungry because a parent is incarcerated.