hungry

adjective4

1. •
   wanting to eat, because the body needs food

   • My kids go to bed hungry every night because I haven’t got much money for food.
   • He was so hungry he could eat two burgers.
2. •
   (figurative) Eager; having an avid desire or appetite for something.

   • the students are hungry to learn
3. •
   Causing hunger.

   • All this gardening is hungry work.
4. •
   Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.

   • […] What is this? / Your knees to me? to your corrected son? / Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach / Fillip the stars […] — 1608