Hungry vs Needy - What's the difference?
hungry | needy |
Affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food.
(figuratively) Eager, having an avid desire ('appetite') for something.
* Charles Kingsley
* Shakespeare
Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.
* Shakespeare
In need, poor.
* 29 February 2012 , Aidan Foster-Carter, BBC News North Korea: The denuclearisation dance resumes [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17213948]
Desiring constant affirmation, lacking in self confidence
As adjectives the difference between hungry and needy
is that hungry is affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food while needy is in need, poor.hungry
English
Adjective
(er)- My kids go to bed hungry every night because I haven't got any money .
- The cruel, hungry foam.
- Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
- a hungry soil
- The hungry beach.
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* * 1000 English basic wordsneedy
English
Adjective
(er)- Needy people want to give too, but have few material goods to offer.
- Such monitoring has often been a sticking point in the past, amid fears that food aid might be diverted to the Northern elite - or its military - rather than the needy.
- "It's emotionally exhausting to be around her because she's so needy ."