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hun⋅gry

[huhng-gree]
–adjective -gri⋅er, -gri⋅est.
1. having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
2. indicating, characteristic of, or characterized by hunger: He approached the table with a hungry look.
3. strongly or eagerly desirous.
4. lacking needful or desirable elements; not fertile; poor: hungry land.
5. marked by a scarcity of food: The depression years were hungry times.
6. Informal. aggressively ambitious or competitive, as from a need to overcome poverty or past defeats: a hungry investment firm looking for wealthy clients.

Origin:
bef. 950; ME, OE hungrig. See hunger, -y 1


hun⋅gri⋅ly, adverb
hun⋅gri⋅ness, noun


1. ravenous, famishing, starving. Hungry, famished, starved describe a condition resulting from a lack of food. Hungry is a general word, expressing various degrees of eagerness or craving for food: hungry between meals; desperately hungry after a long fast; hungry as a bear. Famished denotes the condition of one reduced to actual suffering from want of food, but sometimes is used lightly or in an exaggerated statement: famished after being lost in a wilderness; simply famished (hungry). Starved denotes a condition resulting from long-continued lack or insufficiency of food, and implies enfeeblement, emaciation, or death (originally death from any cause, but now death from lack of food): He looks thin and starved. By the end of the terrible winter, thousands had starved (to death). It is also used as a humorous exaggeration: I only had two sandwiches, pie, and some milk, so I'm simply starved (hungry).


1. sated, satiated, surfeited.
hun·gry   (hŭng'grē)   
adj.   hun·gri·er, hun·gri·est
  1. Experiencing a desire or need for food.
  2. Extremely desirous; avid: hungry for recognition.
  3. Characterized by or expressing hunger or craving: hungry eyes.
  4. Lacking richness or fertility: hungry soil.

[Middle English hungri, from Old English hungrig, from hungor, hunger.]
hun'gri·ly adv., hun'gri·ness n.

Hungry

Hun"gry\, a. [Compar. Hungrier; superl. Hungriest.] [AS. hungrid. See Hunger.]

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

2. Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious.

The cruel, hungry foam. --C. Kingsley.

Cassius has a lean and hungry look. --Shak.

3. Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil. "The hungry beach." --Shak.
Language Translation for : hungry
Spanish: hambriento,
German: hungrig,
Japanese: 空腹の
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