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hungry
- 3 dictionary resultshun⋅gry
[huhng-gree] 
gri
–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. |
Related forms:
hun⋅gri⋅ly, adverb
hun⋅gri⋅ness, noun
Synonyms:
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. 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).
Antonyms:
1. sated, satiated, surfeited.
1. sated, satiated, surfeited.
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| hun·gry (hŭng'grē) adj. hun·gri·er, hun·gri·est
[Middle English hungri, from Old English hungrig, from hungor, hunger.] hun'gri·ly adv., hun'gri·ness n. |
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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.
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Language Translation for : hungry
Spanish:
hambriento,
German:
hungrig,
Japanese:
空腹の
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