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hungriness

/huhng-gree/US // ˈhʌŋ gri //UK // (ˈhʌŋɡrɪ) //

饥渴,猎奇心,饥渴感,饥渴症

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    hun·gri·er, hun·gri·est.

    • : having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
    • : indicating, characteristic of, or characterized by hunger: He approached the table with a hungry look.
    • : strongly or eagerly desirous.
    • : lacking needful or desirable elements; not fertile; poor: hungry land.
    • : marked by a scarcity of food: The depression years were hungry times.
    • : Informal. aggressively ambitious or competitive, as from a need to overcome poverty or past defeats: a hungry investment firm looking for wealthy clients.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inhunger

Examples

  • There was a hungriness in his sharp, black eyes which would have been observed by any one other than these two backwoodsmen.