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hun·gry
(hŭng′grē)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.
[Middle English hungri, from Old English hungrig, from hungor, hunger.]
hun′gri·ly adv.
hun′gri·ness n.
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hungry
(ˈhʌŋɡrɪ)adj, -grier or -griest
1. desiring food
2. (Pathology) experiencing pain, weakness, or nausea through lack of food
3. (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. informal
a. greedy; grasping
b. stingy; mean
7. NZ (of timber) dry and bare
ˈhungrily, ˈhungeringly adv
ˈhungriness n
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hun•gry
(ˈhʌŋ gri)adj. -gri•er, -gri•est.
1. having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger; ravenous.
2. strongly or eagerly desirous: hungry for success.
3. indicating or characterized by hunger or strong desire: a hungry look in a person's eyes.
4. lacking needful or desirable elements; not fertile; poor: hungry land.
5. marked by a scarcity of food: the hungry years of the Depression.
hun′gri•ly, adv.
hun′gri•ness, n.
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hungry
- esurient - If you are esurient, you are hungry.
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| 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" |
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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.
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hungry
adjective2. Having a strong urge to obtain or possess something, especially material wealth, in quantity:
Informal: grabby.
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Translations
جائِع ، تَوّاق إلىجَوْعَانٌ
hladový
sulten
malsata
ihkavnäljane
گرسنه
nälkäinen
gladan
éhes
svangur
腹の減った
배고픈
alkanaalkanasišbadėjęsišbadėjusi
flămând
hladný
lačen
hungrig
หิว
đói
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
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
to be hungry for power → tener sed or estar sediento de poder
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
hungry
[ˈhʌŋgri] adj (for food) → affamé(e)
to be hungry → avoir faim
I'm hungry → J'ai faim.
to go hungry → manquer de nourriture
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
to be hungry for success → être avide de succès
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
hungry
adj (+er)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
hungry
[ˈhʌŋgrɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) to be hungry → aver fame, essere affamato/ato 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
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
hunger
(ˈhaŋgə) noun1. the desire for food. A cheese roll won't satisfy my hunger.
2. the state of not having enough food. Poor people in many parts of the world are dying of hunger.
3. any strong desire. a hunger for love.
verb (usually with for) to long for (eg affection, love).
ˈhungry adjective wanting or needing food etc. a hungry baby; I'm hungry – I haven't eaten all day; He's hungry for adventure.
ˈhungrily adverbˈhungriness noun
hunger strike
a refusal to eat, as a form of protest or to force (someone) to agree to certain demands etc. The prisoners went on hunger strike as a protest against prison discipline.
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hungry
→ جَوْعَانٌ 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Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
hungry
a. hambriento-a;
to be ___ → tener hambre;
to go ___ → pasar hambre.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
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hungry
adj to be — tener hambreEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.