hungryとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/
• Homophone: Hungary (in some accents)

形容詞

hungry (comparative hungrier, superlative hungriest)

1. Affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food; such as a person's stomach rumbling, growling or grumbling.

   My kids go to bed hungry every night because I haven't got much money for food.

   I wake up very hungry and made some toast.

2. Causing hunger

   All this gardening is hungry work.

3. (figuratively) Eager, having an avid desire (‘appetite’) for something.

   the students are hungry to learn

   • 1850, Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke, London: Chapman & Hall, Volume 2, Chapter 5, p. 56,^[1]

     They rowed her in across the rolling foam,

     The cruel, crawling foam,

     The cruel, hungry foam,

     To her grave beside the sea:

   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene 2,^[2]

     Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;

4. Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.

   a hungry soil

   • c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act V, Scene 3,^[3]

     […] What is this?

     Your knees to me? to your corrected son?

     Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach

     Fillip the stars […]

同意語

• (affected by hunger, desiring food): famished, peckish, starving

派生語