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hungry
[ huhng-gree ]
adjective
- having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
Synonyms:
Antonyms:
- indicating, characteristic of, or characterized by hunger:
He approached the table with a hungry look.
- strongly or eagerly desirous.
- lacking needful or desirable elements; not fertile; poor:
hungry land.
- marked by a scarcity of food:
The depression years were hungry times.
- 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
- desiring food
- experiencing pain, weakness, or nausea through lack of food
- postpositivefoll byfor having a craving, desire, or need (for)
- expressing or appearing to express greed, craving, or desire
- lacking fertility; poor
- informal.
- greedy; grasping
- stingy; mean
- (of timber) dry and bare
Derived Forms
- ˈ³ó³Ü²Ô²µ°ù¾±²Ô±ð²õ²õ, noun
- ˈ³ó³Ü²Ô²µ°ù¾±±ô²â, adverb
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³ó³Ü²Ôg°ù¾±Â·±ô²â adverb
- ³ó³Ü²Ôg°ù¾±Â·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
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Example Sentences
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.
“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€
"I'm feeling wonderful. I feel safe. I feel great, even though I'm hungry," said an elderly man, Kasim Agra.
“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€
"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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