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Hungry vs Esurient - What's the difference?

hungry | esurient |

As adjectives the difference between hungry and esurient

is that hungry is affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food while esurient is very hungry or greedy; ravenous.

As a noun esurient is

one who is hungry or greedy.

hungry

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food.
    • My kids go to bed hungry every night because I haven't got any money .
  • (figuratively) Eager, having an avid desire ('appetite') for something.
  • * Charles Kingsley
    • The cruel, hungry foam.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
  • Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.
    • a hungry soil
  • * Shakespeare
    • The hungry beach.

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    * * 1000 English basic words

    esurient

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Very hungry or greedy; ravenous.
    • (Bailey)
  • * Carlyle
    • Poor, but esurient .
  • *1983 , (Alasdair Gray), ‘Logopandocy’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012 ), p. 177:
  • *:I answered that such freedom would be worse than the vilest slavery, for it would leave me free to do nothing but grappel till death with clusterfist creditors and esurient Kirkists […].
  • avid

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who is hungry or greedy.
  • * Wood
    • An insatiable esurient after riches.

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