HUNGRY | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of hungry in English hungryadjective uk /ˈhʌŋ.ɡri/ us /ˈhʌŋ.ɡri/

hungry adjective (NEEDING FOOD)

Add to word list Add to word list A1 wanting or needing food: By four o'clock I was really hungry.feel hungry I was beginning to feel very hungry. The children are always hungry when they get home from school. There are too many hungry people (= people without enough to eat) in the world.go hungry She often goes hungry herself (= does not eat) so that her children can have enough to eat.hungry work Digging the garden is hungry work (= makes you feel hunger). wanting or needing food

• hungryBy dinner time we all felt really hungry.
• starvingIs there anything to eat? I'm starving!
• starvedUS He ate so quickly, like he was starved.
• famishedAfter that long workout, I'm absolutely famished.
• ravenousHe's going through a growth spurt, so he's just ravenous.

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• I think it's a sin to waste food, when so many people in the world are hungry.
• I was hoping there'd be some food - I'm a bit hungry.
• The kids kept on about how hungry they were, so their father gave them some biscuits to shut them up.
• The baby had a feed an hour ago, so she can't be hungry.
• When our cat is hungry, she starts clawing at my legs.

Hungry & thirsty

• anorectic
• anorexigenic
• anti-hunger
• appetite
• be gasping idiom
• food poverty
• go hungry
• hearty appetite
• hunger
• hunger pang
• parched
• ravenous
• ravenously
• smack your lips idiom
• snacky
• thirst
• undernourished
• voraciously
• voraciousness
• voracity

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hungry adjective (WANTING)

C2 having a strong wish or desire for something: hungry for She was so hungry for success that she'd do anything to achieve it. Journalists were hungry for details. Wanting things

• ache for something phrasal verb
• acquisitive
• ambitious
• ambitiously
• angle for something phrasal verb
• desperate
• expense
• fancy
• have eyes on someone/something idiom
• hearty appetite
• hunger
• hunger after/for something phrasal verb
• pine
• roll on the weekend, five o'clock, etc. idiom
• seeker
• set your heart on something/doing something idiom
• set your sights on something idiom
• shook
• sight
• someone's heart's desire idiom

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Related word

hungrily -hungrysuffix uk / -hʌŋ.ɡri/ us / -hʌŋ.ɡri/ having a strong wish or desire for the stated thing: power-hungry politicians Wanting things

• ache for something phrasal verb
• acquisitive
• ambitious
• ambitiously
• angle for something phrasal verb
• desperate
• expense
• fancy
• have eyes on someone/something idiom
• hearty appetite
• hunger
• hunger after/for something phrasal verb
• pine
• roll on the weekend, five o'clock, etc. idiom
• seeker
• set your heart on something/doing something idiom
• set your sights on something idiom
• shook
• sight
• someone's heart's desire idiom

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hungry | American Dictionary

hungryadjective us /ˈhʌŋ·ɡri/

hungry adjective (NEEDING FOOD)

Add to word list Add to word list feeling the need to eat because there has been a period of time when you have not eaten: The children are always hungry when they get home from school. They were poor and often went to bed hungry (= did not get enough to eat at night).

hungry adjective (EAGER)

having a strong desire; eager: Kim is so hungry for success that she’ll do anything to achieve it. (Definition of hungry from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

hungry | Business English

hungryadjective uk /ˈhʌŋɡri/ us Add to word list Add to word list having a great need or wish for something: hungry for sth Analysts said investors were hungry for any information that could point the market in a direction. We need to attract fresh talent and show the world that we are hungry for success. -hungrysuffix having a great need or wish for the stated thing: capital-/cash-/money-hungryenergy-/power-hungry The energy-hungry transportation sector was weak . Many of its investors had been expecting the acquisition-hungry bank to move overseas for its next big deal. (Definition of hungry from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of hungry

hungry His book is crammed with evidence and arguments that, even as prosperity has grown, so the army of the hungry has remained. From the Cambridge English Corpus I was definitely the hungriest and took any story that came my way. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They eat subtraction stew, which makes the diner hungrier. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Under such conditions the baits o could have been more attractive for hungry soil animals there. From the Cambridge English Corpus They were desperately hungry, he wrote, being allowed less food than other prisoners in the same gaol. From the Cambridge English Corpus The saws used in double tend to be a lot hungrier, that is, they cut and draw more wood out with each stroke. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The lion is hungry and is looking for something to eat. From the Cambridge English Corpus Instead, they invest slightly more in the least nutrient-hungry land use - pasture. From the Cambridge English Corpus There is also information about some unusual language patterns eg adjectives that sometimes cannot stand alone (eg hungry for news, deaf to our pleas). From the Cambridge English Corpus They did not have to travel far to reach their fields and could protect crops from hungry animals and humans. From the Cambridge English Corpus The mosquitos, at least the vishnui-group, were hungry. From the Cambridge English Corpus Hungry children often receive food from adults other than their parents. From the Cambridge English Corpus The hungriest people will tend to stop right away. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The colonial picture of an indiscriminately poor and hungry northern savanna was entrenched by the 1930s. From the Cambridge English Corpus Equally, another might move earlier and risk the chance of going hungry to experience higher quality hosts over a larger area. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of hungry These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of hungry, -hungry?

Translations of hungry

in Chinese (Traditional) 需要食物的, 饑餓的, 想要的… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 需要食物的, 饥饿的, 想要的… See more in Spanish hambriento, hambriento/ta [masculine-feminine], ansioso/osa [masculine-feminine]… See more in Portuguese faminto, faminto/-ta, com fome… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian भूकेले, उपाशी, प्रबळ इच्छा… See more 飢えた, 飢餓状態の, 空腹（くうふく）の… See more aç, acıkmış… See more qui a faim, affamé/-ée, avide… See more afamat… See more hongerig… See more உணவை விரும்புவது அல்லது தேவைப்படுவது, ஏதாவது ஒரு வலுவான ஆசை அல்லது ஆசை… See more भूखा, क्षुधित, (किसी वस्तु के लिए) लालायित… See more ભૂખ્યું, કોઈ વસ્તુ માટે મજબૂત ઈચ્છા કે ઝંખના ધરાવવી.… See more sulten… See more hungrig… See more lapar… See more hungrig… See more sulten, lengtende, hungrende… See more بھوکا, لگن, خواہش… See more голодний, голодуючий… See more ఆహారం కావాలనుకోవడం లేదా ఆహారపు అవసరంలో ఉండడం, దేనిపట్ల అయినా ఒక బలమైన కోరిక లేదా ఇష్టం కలిగి ఉండటం… See more ক্ষুধার্ত, প্রবল আগ্রহী, উন্মুখ (সাফল্যের জন্য)… See more hladový… See more lapar… See more หิว… See more đói… See more głodny… See more 배고픈… See more affamato… See more Need a translator?

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More meanings of hungry

• go hungry
• hungry gap
• hungry work
• Hungry Gap, at hungry gap
• lean and hungry idiom
• (I'm so hungry), I could eat a horse idiom

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    • hungry (NEEDING FOOD)
    • hungry (WANTING)
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    • hungry (NEEDING FOOD)
    • hungry (EAGER)
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