Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Experiencing a desire or need for food.
- adjective Extremely desirous; avid.
- adjective Characterized by or expressing hunger or craving.
- adjective Lacking richness or fertility.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.
- adjective Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious.
- adjective Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective affected by
hunger ; desirous of food; having a physical need for food. - adjective figuratively
eager , having an aviddesire ('appetite') for something. - adjective Not
rich orfertile ;poor ;barren ;starved .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous
- adjective feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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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.
Rising Food Costs 2008
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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.
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Always the real angler can release a fish or two, even if the hungry is attacking.
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Always the real angler can release a fish or two, even if the hungry is attacking.
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Through his convulsive sobs, they were at last able to make out the word hungry.
The Cry of the Onlies Judy Klass 2000
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Through his convulsive sobs, they were at last able to make out the word hungry.
The Cry of the Onlies Judy Klass 2000
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Through his convulsive sobs, they were at last able to make out the word hungry.
The Cry of the Onlies Judy Klass 2000
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I wish that someone would pull a Mean Girls and tell Paris that "hungry" is never going to happen.
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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."
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Often, you go to school still hungry from the night before.
Michael Laracy: Strengthening Our Schools: A Legislative Framework to Remove Poverty-Related Barriers to Learning Michael Laracy 2010
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Fonio has long been misunderstood by western researchers, who labelled it “hungry rice” because it was eaten more during periods of food scarcity due to its quick and dependable growth.
‘Fonio just grows naturally’: could ancient indigenous crops ensure food security for Africa? Kaamil Ahmed 2022
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For those who’ve never heard the term ‘hungry bum’ you might be more familiar with the term ‘wedgie’.
Full thigh adjustment for hungry bum — In the Folds Emily ITF 2022
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