Hŭn'gry, a.

adjective

a. [compar. HUNGRIER; superl. HUNGRIEST.] [A-S. hungrig, N. H. Ger. hungrig, hungerig, O. H. Ger. hungarac.]

Sense 1. Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling pain or uneasiness from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.

Sense 2. Showing hunger or a craving desire.

Cassius has a lean and hungry look. Shak.

Sense 3. Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; as, a hungry soil; a hungry gravel. Mortimer.