| 单词 | hungry |
| 释义 | hungry —hungrily, adv. —hungriness, n. /hung"gree/, adj. hungrier, hungriest. 1. having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger. 2. indicating, characteristic of, or characterized by hunger: He approached the table with a hungry look. 3. strongly or eagerly desirous. 4. lacking needful or desirable elements; not fertile; poor: hungry land. 5. marked by a scarcity of food: The depression years were hungry times. 6. Informal. aggressively ambitious or competitive, as from a need to overcome poverty or past defeats: a hungry investment firm looking for wealthy clients. [bef. 950; ME, OE hungrig. See HUNGER, -Y1] Syn. 1. ravenous, famishing, starving. HUNGRY, FAMISHED, STARVED describe a condition resulting from a lack of food. HUNGRY is a general word, expressing various degrees of eagerness or craving for food: hungry between meals; desperately hungry after a long fast; hungry as a bear. FAMISHED denotes the condition of one reduced to actual suffering from want of food, but sometimes is used lightly or in an exaggerated statement: famished after being lost in a wilderness; simply famished (hungry). STARVED denotes a condition resulting from long-continued lack or insufficiency of food, and implies enfeeblement, emaciation, or death (originally death from any cause, but now death from lack of food): He looks thin and starved. By the end of the terrible winter, thousands had starved (to death). It is also used as a humorous exaggeration: I only had two sandwiches, pie, and some milk, so I'm simply starved (hungry). Ant. 1. sated, satiated, surfeited. |
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