hungryとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/
• 韻: -ʌŋɡɹi
• 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.

   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, Tailor and Poet. […], volume (please specify |volume=I または II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], OCLC 1000395324:

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;

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

   a hungry soil

   • c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iii]:

     […] 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