Definition for HUN'GRY

HUN'GRY, a.

  1. Having a keen appetite; feeling pain or uneasiness from want of food. Eat only when you are hungry.
  2. Having an eager desire.
  3. Lean; emaciated, as if reduced by hunger. Cassius has a lean and hungry look. Shak.
  4. Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; requiring substances to enrich itself; as, a hungry soil; a hungry gravel. Mortimer.

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