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hungry

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

饥饿,饿了,饥饿的,饥肠辘辘

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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

adj.starving; desirous

Examples

  • Covid-19 plunged the United States into a recession, leaving millions of Americans out of work and hungry.

  • In other words, if students stay at home, some will be more vulnerable and more hungry and more isolated.

  • The biggest takeaway from the research, however, was less about the hungry sea creatures and more about the underwater recorders.

  • That low-power system, however, is meant more for smaller, less power-hungry devices like smart locks and security sensors.

  • The enormous datasets compiled to feed these data-hungry algorithms capture everything on the internet.

  • The city protests that a beach is not a suitable place to feed the hungry.

  • Springsteen originally wrote his first big hit, “Hungry Heart,” for the Ramones.

  • He's dazzling, fielding questions, spinning out anecdotes and limericks, sounding 35 and hungry for publicity.

  • And to do that, you have to forget that you have been hungry, too.

  • I managed to keep the salad down, but I left the restaurant hungry.

  • And he had waited so long for Grandfather Mole that he had begun to feel hungry again.

  • We make fast the doors of our lighted houses against the indigent and the hungry.

  • That was because he was hungry, you see, but pigs nearly always eat fast, as though they were continually in a hurry.

  • “Mon pauvre petit, you are hungry,” said Aristide, carrying it to the car racked by the clattering engine.

  • A very little crust thrown to the very hungry is always accepted with gratitude.