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.

   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
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