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Meaning of 'hungry' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Hungry [ superl.]
- Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.
- Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious.
- Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil.

Meaning of 'hungry' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . hungry [ a]
Meaning (1):
- feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food
Example in sentence:
  • a world full of hungry people
2 . hungry [ s]
Meaning (2):
- (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous
Example in sentence:
  • athirst for knowledge;
  • hungry for recognition;
  • thirsty for information

Nearby Words:

hun hunch hunchback hunchbacked hunched hunching hundred hundreder hundredfold hundredth

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