HUNGRY

adj. 1 famished, starved, starving, ravenous, voracious, empty, hollow, Colloq chiefly Brit peckish I'm hungry enough to eat a horse 2 craving, covetous, eager, avid, greedy, keen, yearning, desirous, longing, hungering, thirsting, starving, dying, Colloq hankering Marooned for years, Crusoe was hungry for the sight of another human being 3 acquisitive, greedy, thirsty, insatiable, deprived The parched, hungry earth drank up the rain