hungry

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   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. 2
   adj

   Causing hunger.

   All this gardening is hungry work.

3. 3
   adj

   Eager; having an avid desire or appetite for something.

   young and hungry

4. 4
   adj

   Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.

   a hungry soil

5. 5
   adj

   (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous

6. 6
   adj

   feeling hunger

Etymology

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”).