hungry

adj

1. starving, famishing, craving, esurient, appetitive; hungering, ravening, ravenous, sharp-set; famished, starved, peckish; half-starved, half-famished, hungry as a bear, growling.

2. desirous, wishful, wistful, longing, yearning, pining; solicitous, desiderative, needing, wanting; covetous, greedy, avaricious, voracious, rapacious; devouring, gobbling, grasping; eager, hungering, Inf. hankering; keen on, bent on, set on, itching to, aching to, dying to, fain to, Inf. spoiling for; desiring, libidinous, lusting, lustful.

3. poor, barren, sterile, Bot. acarpous, fallow; spare, lean, thin, slight, meager, jejune; depleted, unproductive, unfertile, fruitless; underfed, undernourished, stinted, malnourished, starved; worn, wasted, emaciated, gaunt, hollow, wizened.