hungrily

1. 1.

   in the manner of someone who is very hungry

   “he pounced on the food hungrily”

   Synonymsravenously

Questions about hungrily

What does hungrily mean?

hungrily means "in the manner of someone who is very hungry".

How many syllables are in hungrily?

hungrily has 3 syllables: hun-gri-ly. The stress falls on "hun". In IPA it is /ˈhʌŋɡɹəli/.

What is another word for hungrily?

Close synonyms include ravenously. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hungrily a common word?

hungrily is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.