hungry
Syllables: hun·gryUK/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/
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Northern England/ˈhʊŋɡɹi/
hungry adjective: affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
Adjective
hungry (comparative hungrier, superlative hungriest)
- 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.
- He was so hungry he could eat two burgers.
- Causing hunger.
- All this gardening is hungry work.
- Eager; having an avid desire or appetite for something.
- young and hungry
- the students are hungry to learn
- Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.
- a hungry soil
- […] What is this? / Your knees to me? to your corrected son? / Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach / Fillip the stars […]c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
hungry meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
hungry in Hindi
- affected by hunger; desirous of food
- भूखा bhūkhā
hungry in Tamil
- affected by hunger; desirous of food
- பசி paci
- eager, having a desire for something
- பசி paci, ஆர்வம் ārvam, ஆவல் āval
hungry in Marathi
- भूक लागली, भुकेली
hungry in Urdu
- affected by hunger; desirous of food
- بھوکا bhūkā
More languagesFewer languages
- hungry in Bengali
- ক্ষুধার্ত khudharto
- hungry in Malayalam
- വിശന്ന viśanna
- hungry in Kannada
- ಬುಭುಕ್ಷೆ, ಹಸಿದಿರುವ, ಹಸಿವಿನಿಂದ ಬಳಲಿದ, ಕ್ಷುಧಾರ್ತ
- hungry in Punjabi
- ਭੁੱਖ ਲੱਗੀ ਹੋਈ, ਭੁੱਖ ਲੱਗੀ ਹੈ, ਭੁੱਖੇ
- hungry in Gujarati
- ભૂખ્યું bhūkhyũ
- hungry in Odia
- ଭୋକିଲା bhokilā
- hungry in Sanskrit
- बुभुक्षित bubhukṣita, गर्द gárda, प्सात psātá
- hungry in Nepali
- भोक लागेको
- hungry in Pashto
- وږی wëǵay
- hungry in Arabic
- جَائِع jāʔiʕ, جَوْعَان jawʕān
- hungry in Malay
- lapar
- hungry in Indonesian
- lapar
- hungry in Persian
- گرسنه gorosne
- hungry in Thai
- หิว hǐu, ท้องเลว tóng leo, กระหาย gràhăai
- hungry in Vietnamese
- đói
- hungry in Myanmar
- ဆာ hca
Examples of hungry in a sentence
- I woke up very hungry and made some toast.
- Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies...
- They rowed her in across the rolling foam, / The cruel, crawling foam, / The cruel, hungry foam, / To her grave beside the sea:1850, [Charles Kingsley], chapter V, in Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 5:
- It’s an astonishing roll call of future talent from when they were still young and hungry in Manhattan.2022 November 23, Hadley Freeman, “Like a cinema virgin: how Madonna went stratospheric making Desperately Seeking Susan”, in The Guardian:
Synonyms of hungry
- famished
- peckish
- starving
- eat like a horse
- eat like a pig
- go hungry
- I could eat a brick
- I could eat a horse
- scarf
- scarf down
Antonyms
Forms of hungry
| comparative | hungrier |
|---|---|
| superlative | hungriest |
Origin of hungry
From Middle English hungry, from Old English hungriġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hungrug, from Proto-Germanic *hungrugaz (“hungry”); equivalent to hunger + -y. Cognate with West Frisian hongerich (“hungry”), Dutch hongerig (“hungry”), German hungrig (“hungry”), Swedish hungrig (“hungry”), Icelandic hungraður (“hungry”).
Words formed from hungry
- ahungry
- a hungry man is an angry man
- anhungry
- bloodhungry
- cumhungry
- drungry
- go hungry
- hangry
- horngry
- hungries
- hungrify
- hungrily
- hungriness
- hungrisome
- hungry as a hog
- hungry gap
- hungry ghost
- Hungry Ghost Festival
- hungry like the wolf
- hungry rice
- I'm hungry
- money-hungry
- nonhungry
- overhungry
- power-hungry
- stay hungry
- superhungry
- thungry
- unhungrily
- unhungry
- warhungry
Phrases with hungry
Words that rhyme with hungry
Questions about hungry
- What does hungry mean?
- Hungry means affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
- What is hungry in Hindi?
- Hungry in Hindi is भूखा (bhūkhā). See Hungry meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use hungry in a sentence?
- I woke up very hungry and made some toast.
- What part of speech is hungry?
- Hungry is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce hungry?
- Hungry is pronounced /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/ (UK).
Words near hungry in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hungry (page history and authors); hungry (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); വിശന്ന (Malayalam) (page history and authors); hungry (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hungry (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ભૂખ્યું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); गर्द (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); hungry (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); وږی (Pashto) (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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