Dictionary Entry
hungry
hungry is a 6-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 14 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1superlative
Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.
- 2superlative
Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious.
- 3superlative
Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil.
- 4adjective
(usually followed by `for') extremely desirous
"athirst for knowledge"
"hungry for recognition"
- 5adjective
feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food
"a world full of hungry people"
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