hungry
adjectivetop 1 000 in film dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi//
- Scotland//ˈhʌŋɡɾe//
- //ˈhʊŋɡɹi//
- //ˈhʌŋɡɾi//
Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
adjective
- 1
Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
My kids go to bed hungry every night because I haven’t got much money for food.
He was so hungry he could eat two burgers.
I woke up very hungry and made some toast.
- 2
Causing hunger.
All this gardening is hungry work.
- 3
figurativeEager; having an avid desire or appetite for something.
young and hungry
the students are hungry to learn
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
They rowed her in across the rolling foam, / The cruel, crawling foam, / The cruel, hungry foam, / To her grave beside the sea:
- 4
Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.
a hungry soil
[…] What is this? / Your knees to me? to your corrected son? / Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach / Fillip the stars […]
Etymology
From Middle English hungry, from Old English hungriġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hungrug, from Proto-Germanic *hungrugaz (“hungry”); equivalent to hunger + -y. Cognate with West Frisian hongerich (“hungry”), Dutch hongerig (“hungry”), German hungrig (“hungry”), Swedish hungrig (“hungry”), Icelandic hungraður (“hungry”).
Forms
- comparative
- hungrier
- superlative
- hungriest
hungry · Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
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