Hungry
['hʌŋgrɪ] or ['hʌŋɡri]
Definition
(adj.) feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food; 'a world full of hungry people' .
Editor: Milton--From WordNet
Definition
(superl.) Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.
(superl.) Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious.
(superl.) Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil.
Checker: Marge
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Craving (for food), famishing, ravenous, sharp-set.
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Examples
- Yes, I know you are,' said the gentleman: 'You're hungry too, an't you? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- But, Aunt Chloe, I'm getting mighty hungry, said George. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It was about as clever as if a man brought home a hungry tiger to convince his wife of her need of him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Being hungry, I ate and was grateful. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I only feel hungry. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Yet for all this vigour on the part of the senatorial usurers, landgrabbers, and forestallers, the hungry and the anxious were still insurgent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To-day it is as if a hungry man asked for an indigestible food, and we let him go hungry because he was unwise. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A man is hungry all day long. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- France hungry would certainly not endure an emperor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In less than an hour, I mentioned that the air of the river had given me an appetite, and Sophia, of course, had never been so hungry in all her life! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He had never been hungrier and he filled his mouth with wine, faintly tarry-tasting from the leather bag, and swallowed. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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