Thesaurus:hungry

Thesaurus

hungry

English

Adjective

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

Synonyms

• gaunted (rare)
• hungerful (rare)
• hungry

Antonyms

• full
• gorged
• nonhungry
• unhungry
• sated
• satiated
• stuffed

Hyponyms

Intensive

• famished
• hungry as a hog
• hungry like the wolf
• starved
• starving
• ravenous
• voracious    [⇒ thesaurus]

Diminutive

• peckish

Other

• hangry

Hypernyms

• appetited
• desirous

Various

• I could eat a brick
• I could eat a horse
• eat like a horse
• eat like a pig
• money-hungry (figurative extension)
• scarf
• scarf down
• wolf
• wolf down

See also

• Thesaurus:craving
• Thesaurus:greedy
• Thesaurus:thirsty

Further reading

• “865. desire” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “hungry” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.