hungry

形容词 adj.
/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/    /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  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. Eager; having an avid desire or appetite for something. figuratively
    — young and hungry
  4. Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.
    — a hungry soil

词形变化

hungrier comparative hungriest superlative

词源

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”).
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