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hungrier

hungrier is the comparative form of hungry.

Meaning of hungry

Adjective

hungry (comparative hungrier, superlative hungriest)

  1. Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
    • My kids go to bed hungry every night because I haven’t got much money for food.
  2. Causing hunger.
    • All this gardening is hungry work.
  3. (figuratively) Eager; having an avid desire or appetite for something.
    • young and hungry
  4. Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.
    • a hungry soil

Questions about hungrier

What is hungrier the comparative form of?
Hungrier is the comparative form of hungry.

Words near hungrier in the dictionary

  1. Hungnam
  2. hungover
  3. hungred
  4. hungree
  5. Hungrel
  6. hungrier
  7. hungries
  8. hungriest
  9. hungrified
  10. hungrifies
  11. hungrify

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hungrier (page history and authors); hungry (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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