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Hungriest

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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hungriest

a. (en-superlativehungry)

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hungriest

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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 "hungriest".

Another group went back to their houses and brought food, not that anyone other than the hungriest of the little kids ate much.

Once the residues dried, there was little smell to aggravate human sen­sitivities, but what there was was sufficient to put off all but the hungriest predators.