单词 | hungry |
释义 | hungry/ˈhʌŋɡri /adjective (hungrier, hungriest) 1Feeling or showing the need for food: I was feeling ravenously hungry...
Synonyms ravenous, empty, hollow, faint from hunger; starving, starved, famished, dying from hunger, deprived of food, half-starved, malnourished, undernourished, underfed informal peckish, able to eat a horse, with one's stomach thinking one's throat's cut rare sharp-set, esurient 1.1 [attributive] Causing hunger: I always find art galleries hungry work 1.2Having a strong desire or craving: a party hungry for power [in combination]: grasping, power-hungry individuals...
Synonyms eager, keen, avid, longing, yearning, pining, aching, greedy, thirsting, with an appetite; craving, desiring, desirous of, covetous of, hankering after, lusting after, in need of, in want of informal itching, dying, gagging, hot, with a yen archaic athirst Derivativeshungriness
OriginOld English hungrig, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch hongerig, German hungrig, also to hunger. |
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