Definitions for hungry

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hungry hun·gry

Spelling: [huhng-gree]

IPA: /ˈhʌŋ gri/

Hungry is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in hungry (ghnruy).

Definitions for hungry

adjective

1. having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
2. indicating, characteristic of, or characterized by hunger:
3. strongly or eagerly desirous.
4. lacking needful or desirable elements; not fertile; poor:
5. marked by a scarcity of food:
6. Informal. aggressively ambitious or competitive, as from a need to overcome poverty or past defeats:

Origin of hungry

before 950; Middle English, Old English hungrig. See hunger, -y¹

Examples for hungry

This from Jerry Tompkins; you have probably no idea how hungry he was at that moment.

Springsteen originally wrote his first big hit, “hungry Heart,” for the Ramones.

And to do that, you have to forget that you have been hungry, too.

The city protests that a beach is not a suitable place to feed the hungry.

Yes—I'm hungry for both, and some of those funny little cakes.

He's dazzling, fielding questions, spinning out anecdotes and limericks, sounding 35 and hungry for publicity.

I want to eat when I am hungry, sleep when I am weary, drink—well, any old time.

The History of Man is the record of a hungry creature in search of food.

Rested at Pintumbra, as there was good feed for our tired and hungry horses.

The aid—mainly food and medical equipment—is meant for Syrians displaced from their hometowns, and for hungry civilians.