hungry

hungry
[[t]hʌ̱ŋgri[/t]]
hungrier, hungriest
1) ADJ-GRADED When you are hungry, you want some food because you have not eaten for some time and have an uncomfortable or painful feeling in your stomach.

My friend was hungry, so we drove to a shopping mall to get some food...

She is reduced to stealing to feed her hungry family.

Ant:
Derived words:
hungrily [[t]hʌ̱ŋgrɪli[/t]] ADV-GRADED ADV with v

James ate hungrily.

2) PHRASE: V inflects If people go hungry, they do not have enough food to eat.

Leonidas' family had been poor, he went hungry for years.

3) ADJ-GRADED: usu v-link ADJ for n, v-link ADJ to-inf (emphasis) If you say that someone is hungry for something, you are emphasizing that they want it very much. [LITERARY]

Susan was certainly hungry for a life different from the one she had made for herself...

I left Oxford in 1961 hungry to be a critic.

Syn:
Derived words:
hungrily ADV-GRADED ADV with v

He looked at her hungrily. What eyes! What skin!

COMB in ADJ
Hungry is also a combining form.

...power-hungry politicians. ...land-hungry peasants.


English dictionary. 2008.

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Synonyms:
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