adjective (hungrier, hungriest)
1 feeling that you want to eat sth:
I'm really hungry. * She wasn't feeling very hungry. * Is anyone getting hungry? * All this talk of food is making me hungry. * I have a hungry family to feed.
2 not having enough food to eat:
The charity is now targetting hungry people in Africa. * Thousands are going hungry because of the failure of this year's harvest.
3 (the hungry) noun [pl.] people who do not have enough food to eat
4 [onlybeforenoun] causing you to feel that you want to eat sth:
All this gardening is hungry work.
5 ~ (for sth) having or showing a strong desire for sth:
Both parties are hungry for power. * power-hungry * The child is simply hungry for affection. * His eyes had a wild hungry look in them.
hungrily adverb:
They gazed hungrily at the display of food. * He kissed her hungrily.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for hungry is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does hungry appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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