Synonyms for hungry
10 synonyms for “hungry”, grouped by meaning. Dark green words mean nearly the same thing; light green ones are close in some uses.
Hungry as in “famished”
adjective: feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food
- starving
- famished
- peckish
- ravenous
- starved
- empty
- voracious
- insatiable
Hungry as in “athirst”
adjective: (usually followed by ‘for’) extremely desirous
- eager
- athirst
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