Hungry vs. Eager — What's the Difference?

Feeling or showing the need for food

Strongly wanting to do or have something

Experiencing a desire or need for food.

Having or showing keen interest, intense desire, or impatient expectancy. See Usage Note at anxious.

Extremely desirous; avid

(Obsolete) Tart; sharp; cutting.

Characterized by or expressing hunger or craving

Variant of eagre.

Lacking richness or fertility

See tidal bore.

Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.

Desirous; keen to do or obtain something.

Causing hunger.

(comptheory) Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.

(figuratively) Eager, having an avid desire (‘appetite’) for something.

(dated) Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.

Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.

Sharp; sour; acid.

Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.

Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.

Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious.

Alternative form of eagre(tidal bore).

Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil.

Sharp; sour; acid.

Feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food;

Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.

(usually followed by `for') extremely desirous;

Excited by desire in the pursuit of any object; ardent to pursue, perform, or obtain; keenly desirous; hotly longing; earnest; zealous; impetuous; vehement; as, the hounds were eager in the chase.

Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.

Same as Eagre.

A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)

Having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy;

Marked by active interest and enthusiasm;