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Hungry

//ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    Causing hunger.

    "All this gardening is hungry work."

  3. 3
    Eager; having an avid desire or appetite for something. figuratively

    "young and hungry"

  4. 4
    Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.

    "a hungry soil"

Adjective
  1. 1
    (usually followed by ‘for’) extremely desirous wordnet
  2. 2
    feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food wordnet

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”).

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