hungry: meaning and words from its letters
6 letters · 13 letter points · starts with H · ends with Y
Meaning of hungry
adj
Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
Example: My kids go to bed hungry every night because I haven’t got much money for food.
Causing hunger.
Example: All this gardening is hungry work.
- figuratively
Eager; having an avid desire or appetite for something.
Example: young and hungry
Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.
Example: a hungry soil
Listed forms: hungrier, hungriest.
Source: Wiktionary — hungry.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
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adjective
(usually followed by ‘for’) extremely desirous
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
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| American English | Found |
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Letter-value score of hungry
H(4) + U(1) + N(1) + G(2) + R(1) + Y(4) = 13 points.
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Anagrams of hungry
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
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Shorter words from hungry
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