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/hˈəŋgri/ Listen

adjective

Hungry adj. (compar. hungrier; superl. hungriest)

Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.

Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious. "The cruel, hungry foam." "Cassius has a lean and hungry look."

Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil. "The hungry beach."

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Etymology of 'Hungry'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hungry" Quotes from Famous Books

... sticks, over a fire of cones and fir boughs; while the girls spread the mossy table with a feast of country goodies, and the children tumbled about in everyone's way till the toot of the horn made them settle down like a flock of hungry birds. ...

— Eight Cousins • Louisa M. Alcott

... almost forgotten. When he crossed the stage to them, it was with his former air of dogged indifference and cynical self-content. Explanations were neither offered nor asked. He flung his hat aside and sat upon the corner of a crazy sofa despised by the rest of the company. A hungry look, cast upon the inviting delicacies, betrayed the fact that he was hungry. Be sure it was not ...

— Aladdin of London - or Lodestar • Sir Max Pemberton

... under very similar conditions this dauntless party set about passing through one of the most horrible winters which God has invented. They were very hungry, for the wind which kept the sea open also made the shore almost impossible for seals. There were red-letter days, however, such as when Browning found and killed a seal, and in its stomach, "not too far ...

— The Worst Journey in the World, Volumes 1 and 2 - Antarctic 1910-1913 • Apsley Cherry-Garrard

... out of the window and looked at her watch. "We ordered tea early," she said, "because we came in from our drive quite hungry. It is not five o'clock yet, and a radiant afternoon. The sun sets ...

— The Rosary • Florence L. Barclay

... arms, but finding nothing to guide them save the few thin stars in the torn foliage overhead. Without watches, they could catch no idea of the hour. The night was far spent, declared Arved; he discovered that he was very hungry. Suddenly, from the top of a steep, slippery bank they pitched forward ...

— Visionaries • James Huneker

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