hungry

[Hun·gry]

Are you hungry? If your stomach is growling, you're probably hungry, which is how you’d describe that uncomfortable feeling in your gut when you go too long without eating food.

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Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.

Adjective
feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food; "a world full of hungry people"


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.


Hungry

Hun"gry , a. [Compar. Hungrier ; superl. Hungriest.] [AS. hungrid. See Hunger.] 1. Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire. 2. Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious.
The cruel, hungry foam.
Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
3. Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil. "The hungry beach." Shak.

Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.

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Usage Examples

I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.

I wake up every morning happy for where I am in life. It's not all about the cooking, but the fact that I can contribute by using my influence to help people all over the country. In the last two years, my partners and I have fed more than 10 million hungry people by bringing meat to food banks.

Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long.

Eating when you're not hungry and taking in that amount of food is exhausting.

Hunger is a political issue, and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry - not funding food stamps adequately, not funding school lunches adequately. So there is a political solution to the problem of hunger.

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Other Usage Examples

I left home because I was hungry.

I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.

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