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hungered

ADJECTIVE

hungry

Synonyms

STRONGEST

eager greedy keen ravenous starved

WEAK

athirst avid carnivorous could eat a horse covetous craving edacious empty esurient famished famishing flying light got the munchies hankering hoggish hollow insatiate omnivorous on empty stomach piggish rapacious unfilled unsatisfied voracious yearning

Antonyms

STRONGEST

full unenthusiastic

WEAK

replete satiated satisfied stuffed

Example Sentences

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That added to a quasi “gold rush” among investors who understandably hungered for a piece of the action.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 3, 2026

Enjoying heavy rotation on MTV on the wings of “Dancing with Myself” and “White Wedding,” his audience hungered for more.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2024

Their movement had hungered for this moment for years, but now, after Oct.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2024

For years, while Vietnam was under a U.S. embargo, people hungered in the way that many Afghans now hunger.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2022

I hungered to share the dominant assumptions of my time and act upon them.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright