hungryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/
• 韻: -ʌŋɡɹi
• Homophone: Hungary (in some accents)
• ハイフネーション: hun‧gry

形容詞

hungry (comparative hungrier, superlative hungriest)

1. Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.

   Synonyms: famished, peckish, starving

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

   He was so hungry he could eat two burgers.

   I woke up very hungry and made some toast.

2. Causing hunger.

   All this gardening is hungry work.

3. (figuratively) Eager; having an avid desire or appetite for something.

   young and hungry

   the students are hungry to learn

   • 1599 (first performance), 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, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;

   • 1850, [Charles Kingsley], chapter V, in Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 5:

     They rowed her in across the rolling foam, / The cruel, crawling foam, / The cruel, hungry foam, / To her grave beside the sea:

   • 2022 November 23, Hadley Freeman, “Like a cinema virgin: how Madonna went stratospheric making Desperately Seeking Susan”, in The Guardian‎:

     It’s an astonishing roll call of future talent from when they were still young and hungry in Manhattan.

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

   a hungry soil

   • c. 1608–1609 (date written), 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, [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 […]

派生語

参考

• thirsty
• I am hungry

語源

From 古期英語 hungriġ, from Proto-Germanic *hungragaz; equivalent to hunger +‎ -y.

発音

• IPA: /ˈhunɡriː/, [ˈhuŋɡriː]

形容詞

hungry

1. Hungry or starving; needing food:
   1. Malnourished: shriveled from or like from hunger.
   2. Voracious, ravenous; wanting to eat.
2. (rare, religion) Spiritually desirous.
3. (rare, of soil) Unproductive, barren.

派生語

• hungryly

派生した語

• English: hungry
• Scots: hungry
• Yola: hungree

参照

• “hungrī(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

名詞

hungry

1. Those who are hungry or impoverished.

参照

• “hungrī(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 19 September 2018.