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hungry

[ huhng-gree ]

adjective

hungrier, hungriest.
  1. having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.

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  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.



hungry

/ ˈ³óʌŋɡ°ùɪ /

adjective

  1. desiring food
  2. experiencing pain, weakness, or nausea through lack of food
  3. postpositivefoll byfor having a craving, desire, or need (for)
  4. expressing or appearing to express greed, craving, or desire
  5. lacking fertility; poor
  6. informal.
    1. greedy; grasping
    2. stingy; mean
  7. (of timber) dry and bare
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ³ó³Ü²Ô²µ°ù¾±²Ô±ð²õ²õ, noun
  • ˈ³ó³Ü²Ô²µ°ù¾±±ô²â, adverb
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³ó³Ü²Ôg°ù¾±Â·±ô²â adverb
  • ³ó³Ü²Ôg°ù¾±Â·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of hungry1

First recorded before 950; Middle English, Old English hungrig. See hunger, -y 1
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Synonym Study

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 ).
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Hoards of hungry children with rumbling tummies are a common sight in school dinner halls, and a new exhibition has opened in Suffolk telling the stories of those lunchtime tastes and aromas - good or bad.

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“The USDA’s actions are lowering the quality of food in our schools and taking meals away from hungry families across the Golden State and our country.â€

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"I'm feeling wonderful. I feel safe. I feel great, even though I'm hungry," said an elderly man, Kasim Agra.

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“I just always felt kind of hungry for that. And I think in L.A., it has to be a little bit more of a fight to carve out that ground.â€

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"At least back home in Nigeria, if you go broke, I can find my sister or my parents and go and eat free food. It's not the same here. You will go hungry."

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