hungry

hun·gry  (hnggr)

adj. hun·gri·er, hun·gri·est

1. Experiencing a desire or need for food.

2. Extremely desirous; avid: hungry for recognition.

3. Characterized by or expressing hunger or craving: hungry eyes.

4. Lacking richness or fertility: hungry soil.

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[Middle English hungri, from Old English hungrig, from hungor, hunger.]

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hungri·ly adv.

hungri·ness n.

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hungry [ˈhʌŋgrɪ]

adj -grier, -griest

1. desiring food

2. (Medicine / Pathology) experiencing pain, weakness, or nausea through lack of food

3. (postpositive; foll by for) having a craving, desire, or need (for)

4. expressing or appearing to express greed, craving, or desire

5. lacking fertility; poor

6. NZ (of timber) dry and bare

hungrily , hungeringly adv

hungriness  n

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	hungry - feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food; "a world full of hungry people" thirsty - feeling a need or desire to drink; "after playing hard the children were thirsty"
	2.	hungry - (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous; "athirst for knowledge"; "hungry for recognition"; "thirsty for informaton" athirst, thirsty desirous, wishful - having or expressing desire for something; "desirous of high office"; "desirous of finding a quick solution to the problem"

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hungry

adjective

1. starving, ravenous, famished, starved, empty, hollow, voracious, peckish (informal, chiefly Brit.), famishing My friend was hungry, so we went to get some food.

2. eager, keen, craving, yearning, greedy, avid, desirous, covetous, athirst I left Oxford in 1961 hungry to be a critic.

go hungry starve, fast, go or do without food You've never known what it is to go hungry.

Quotations
"A hungry stomach has no ears" [Jean de la Fontaine The Kite and the Nightingale]

Translations

hungry [ˈhʌŋgrɪ] ADJ (hungrier (compar) (hungriest (superl)))

1. (gen) [person, animal] → hambriento
pictures of hungry children → imágenes de niños hambrientos
he looked at the cake with hungry eyes → miró el pastel con anhelo
digging up the road is hungry work → cavar la calle es un trabajo que da hambre or abre el apetito
to be hungry → tener hambre
to feel hungry → tener hambre
to go hungry → pasar hambre
we were late for tea so we had to go hungry → llegamos tarde para la cena y tuvimos que quedarnos sin comer
all this work is making me hungry → todo este trabajo me está dando hambre
talking about food is making me hungry → hablando de comida se me está abriendo el apetito

2. (fig) (= eager) to be hungry for [+ adventure, knowledge] → tener hambre or sed de, estar hambriento or sediento de
to be hungry for power → tener sed or estar sediento de poder

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hungry [ˈhʌŋgri] adj

(for food) → affamé(e)
to be hungry → avoir faim
I'm hungry → J'ai faim.
to go hungry → manquer de nourriture

(= eager) hungry for [+ power, love, fame, money] → avide de
to be hungry for success → être avide de succès

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hungry

adj (+er)

(lit) → hungrig; to be or feel/get hungry → Hunger haben/bekommen; to go hungry → hungern

(fig) → hungrig; hungry for knowledge/love/power → bildungs-/liebes-/machthungrig; to be hungry for news → sehnsüchtig auf Nachricht warten; to be hungry for fame/riches/company → sich nach Ruhm/Reichtum/Gesellschaft sehnen; this is hungry work → das macht hungrig

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hungry [ˈhʌŋgrɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) to be hungry → aver fame, essere affamato/a
to make sb hungry → far venire fame a qn
to go hungry (starve) → patire la fame (skip a meal) → saltare il pasto
hungry for (fig) → assetato/a di (lit) → affamato/a di

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hungry [ˈhʌŋgrɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) to be hungry → aver fame, essere affamato/a
to make sb hungry → far venire fame a qn
to go hungry (starve) → patire la fame (skip a meal) → saltare il pasto
hungry for (fig) → assetato/a di (lit) → affamato/a di

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hungry → جوعان hladový sulten hungrig πεινασμένος hambriento nälkäinen affamé gladan affamato 腹の減った 배고픈 hongerig sulten głodny faminto голодный hungrig หิว aç đói 饥饿的