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1. (adj.) hungry
having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger; ravenous.
2. hungry
strongly or eagerly desirous:
hungry for success.
3. hungry
indicating or characterized by hunger or strong desire:
a hungry look in a person's eyes.
4. hungry
lacking needful or desirable elements; not fertile; poor:
hungry land.
5. hungry
marked by a scarcity of food:
the hungry years of the Depression.
Etymology: (bef. 950; ME; OE hungrig. See hunger , -y1)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) hungry
feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food
"a world full of hungry people"
2. (adj) athirst(p), hungry(p), thirsty(p)
(usually followed by `for') extremely desirous
"athirst for knowledge"; "hungry for recognition"; "thirsty for informaton"
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1. (adjective) hungry
feeling like you need to eat
They were hungry after working outside all day.; The smell of the food was making me hungry.
2. hungry
suffering from a prolonged lack of food
children who go hungry everyday
3. hungry
the hungry
people who do not have enough to eat
4. hungry
wanting sth very much
politicians hungry for power/votes/money
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. hungry
feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire
2. hungry
showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious
3. hungry
not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil
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Sense: wanting or needing food etc
a hungry baby; I'm hungry; – I haven't eaten all day; He's hungry for adventure.
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 Afrikaans: honger |
 Arabic: جائِع ، تَوّاق إلى |
 Bulgarian: гладен |
 Brazilian: esfomeado |
 Czech: hladový |
 German: hungrig |
 Danish: sulten |
 Greek: πεινασμένος |
 Spanish: hambriento |
 Estonian: kõht on tühi, näljane |
 Farsi: گرسنه |
 Finnish: nälkäinen |
 French: affamé |
 Hebrew: רָעֵב |
 Hindi: भूखा |
 Croatian: gladan;željan, ceznutljiv |
 Hungarian: éhes |
 Indonesian: lapar |
 Icelandic: svangur |
 Italian: affamato |
 Japanese: 空腹の |
 Korean: 배고픈 |
 Lithuanian: alkanas |
 Latvian: izsalcis |
 Malay: lapar |
 Dutch: hongerig |
 Norwegian: sulten, hungrende |
 Polish: głodny |
 Persian: گرسنه |
 Pashto: وږی |
 Portuguese: esfomeado |
 Romanian: înfometat |
 Russian: голодный; жаждущий |
 Slovak: hladný |
 Slovenian: lačen, željan |
 Serbian: gladan |
 Swedish: hungrig |
 Thai: หิว |
 Turkish: aç |
 Taiwanese: 飢餓的 |
 Ukrainian: голодний; голодуючий |
 Urdu: کھانے کا خواہشمند |
 Vietnamese: đói |
 Chinese: 饥饿的 |
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