Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Experiencing a desire or need for food.
- adj. Extremely desirous; avid: hungry for recognition.
- adj. Characterized by or expressing hunger or craving: hungry eyes.
- adj. Lacking richness or fertility: hungry soil.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having or feeling hunger; feeling pain or uneasiness from want of food; having a keen appetite.
- Hence Having an eager desire for anything; longing.
- Indicating want or poverty of nourishment; gaunt; famished.
- Marked by scarcity of food or a famished condition; necessitating nourishment.
- Not rich or fertile; poor; barren.
- Fit only to satisfy great hunger.
- Stingy; mean.
Wiktionary
- adj. affected by hunger; desirous of food; having a physical need for food.
- adj. eager, having an avid desire ('appetite') for something.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.
- adj. Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious.
- adj. Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous
- adj. feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food
Etymologies
- Middle English hungri, from Old English hungrig, from hungor, hunger.
Examples
“Indeed, the newest report by the USDA shies away from using the term hungry in favor of the phrase "food insecure" even though it is the same group covered in earlier reports: people consuming less than 2,100 calories daily.”
“Hopefully we will get Memo back and I believe if we do that we can win both games at home. even with mehmo around i still don't think jazz is capable of beating the title hungry bryant and his lakers. this series is already wrapped up for the lakers.”
“Always the real angler can release a fish or two, even if the hungry is attacking.”
“Through his convulsive sobs, they were at last able to make out the word hungry.”
“I wish that someone would pull a Mean Girls and tell Paris that "hungry" is never going to happen.”
“Helping children of Chernobyl SILT - While 14-year-old Nastia Tysnul of Belarus was staying with Beth Dardynski and her husband, Jim Croy, of Silt this summer, she only knew three words in English - "hungry," "music" and "TV.”
“Often, you go to school still hungry from the night before.”
“Why Keith considers the responsible politicians who want to encourage folks to abandon unnecessary automobile use to be "money hungry" is beyond me.”
Congestion Tax Works, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Directing them toward CO2 reduction rather than feeding the world's hungry is a political decision.”
“Gans says some under-informed newbie vegans end up just plain hungry, attempting to subsist on salads and soy milk.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hungry’.
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Adjectives with 2 syllables that end in -y
angry, bossy, busy, chilly, cheesy, creepy, dirty, early, funny, hairy, happy, healthy and 126 more...
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I am : hungry
Words (adjectives and verbs) for physical hunger, thirst - and the fulfillment of.
hungry, thirsty, famished, starved, ravenous, satiated, sated, full, bloated, parched, gorge, voracious and 2 more...
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Public List: One Word Wonders
Every now and then I run across a Wordie who has but a single word listed. For no reason whatsoever, I decided I'd start keeping a list of them.
yusufa95, ach!, parth, nitom, shutterbug, hungry, aerodynamic, untonsured, zephyr, babs
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