hungry

Meaning

Adjective

• Affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food; such as a person's stomach rumbling, growling or grumbling.
• Causing hunger
• Eager, having an avid desire (‘appetite’) for something.
• Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.

Related

Similar words

• famished, peckish, starving

Origin

• From Middle English hungry, from Old English hungriġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hungrug, from Proto-Germanic *hungrugaz; equivalent to hunger + -y. Cognate with West Frisian hongerich, Dutch hongerig, German hungrig, Swedish hungrig, Icelandic hungraður.