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Hungrier

Hungry \Hun"gry\, a. [Compar. Hungrier; superl. Hungriest.]

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

  2. Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious.

    The cruel, hungry foam.
    --C. Kingsley.

    Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
    --Shak.

  3. Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil. ``The hungry beach.''
    --Shak.

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hungrier

a. (en-comparative of: hungry)

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hungrier

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hungry
  1. adj. feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food; "a world full of hungry people" [ant: thirsty]

  2. (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous; "athirst for knowledge"; "hungry for recognition"; "thirsty for informaton" [syn: athirst(p), hungry(p), thirsty(p)]

  3. [also: hungriest, hungrier]

Usage examples of "hungrier".

You should, by rights, be even hungrier than I,' and his light-hearted grin included an ultimate reference to my abstinence for his sake.

They must have been hungrier than any of them had guessed, for when nothing happened to hurt or kill any of the pack, they began making attempts to mob the sled, and they seemed to be trying to think of ways to pull it down.

If they mopped up the Yoered Family now, they'd just be replaced by someone younger and hungrier and cruder.

She was hungrier than she thought and quite willing to concentrate on eating.

Some of the weaker, hungrier men had lain down by the Kamehameha Highway and, too weary to go on, let the Japs do them in.

His mood improved briefly, though he was hungrier than ever when he removed the tube.

He drew nutrients from the coffin and mulled his problems and grew hungrier, until he could think of little else but his hunger.

Hunger did that to her, and she'd been a lot hungrier of late, a lot hungrier.

She had to have been hungrier than she'd thought—either that or her spell-casting involved a great deal more than she had considered.