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Synonyms for hungry

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Synonyms for hungry

desiring or craving food

having a strong urge to obtain or possess something, especially material wealth, in quantity

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Synonyms for hungry

feeling hunger

Antonyms

(usually followed by 'for') extremely desirous

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"Obviously, Southend had a lot to play for today but it still should not have been the case that they were hungrier than us.
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"If I were to come here believing Nico is hungrier than me then I might as well go home."
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As the day passes, Papa gets hungrier and hungrier.
He ends up hungrier than the pigs he is feeding and realizes that even his father's hired hands have enough to eat.
The larvae of many destructive insects often over-winter there and will simply climb back up the host plant, hungrier than ever, when the weather warms up.
A meal of carbs--especially those derived from sugar and refined flour--is followed by a surge of blood sugar, then, as insulin is released in response, a sudden collapse, leaving you often light-headed, cranky, headachy, and certainly hungrier than before you ate.
"Them is more time, less pressure, and the dancers are hungrier."
Americans are more attentive to the world at large, hungrier for international news.