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hungry

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
14
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/ (US)
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/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/ (US) · /ˈhʊŋɡɹi/ · /ˈhʌŋɡɾe/ · /ˈhʌŋɡɾi/

Definition of hungry

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  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.”
    “He was so hungry he could eat two burgers.”
    “I woke up very hungry and made some toast.”
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adj

  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.”
    “He was so hungry he could eat two burgers.”
    “I woke up very hungry and made some toast.”
  2. Causing hunger.
    “All this gardening is hungry work.”
  3. (figuratively)Eager; having an avid desire or appetite for something.
    “young and hungry”
    “the students are hungry to learn”
    “Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;”
    “They rowed her in across the rolling foam, / The cruel, crawling foam, / The cruel, hungry foam, / To her grave beside the sea:”
    “It’s an astonishing roll call of future talent from when they were still young and hungry in Manhattan.”
  4. Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.
    “a hungry soil”
    “[…] What is this? / Your knees to me? to your corrected son? / Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach / Fillip the stars […]”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

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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