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hungry

/ˈhʌŋɡri/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈhʌŋɡri/
hungry
Syllables
2 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Short u vowel
Ending
Final y vowel sound

hun - gry -> hungry

Myanmar meaning

(adj) ဆာသော။ဆာလောင်သော။ ငတ်သော။ငတ်ပြတ်သော။ ဥမက်သော။ဆန္ဒရှိသော။အာသီသရှိသော။ မွတ်သိပ်သော။ ဝမ်းဟာစေသော။ဗိုက်ချောင်စေသော။

Full entry

hungry /'hʌŋgri/ adj (-ier , -iest )

၁။ (က) ဆာသော။ ဆာလောင် သော။ I've got a hungry family to feed. ❍ Let's eat soon—I'm really hungry! ❍ I don't feel very hungry.
(ခ) ငတ်သော။ ငတ်ပြတ်သော။ the hungry masses ❍ Thousands are going hungry because of the failure of the harvest.
၂။ ~ for sth [ဥ] မက်[သော]။ ဆန္ဒရှိ[သော]။ အာသီသရှိ[သော]။ The boy is simply hungry for affection. ❍ The crowd was hungry for more.
၃။ [usu attrib] မွတ်သိပ်သော။ His eyes had a wild hungry look in them.
၄။ (infml ) ဝမ်းဟာစေသော။ ဗိုက်ချောင်စေသော။ Haymaking is hungry work. Compare THIRSTY
❏ hungrily /'hʌŋgrǝli/ adv အငမ်းမရ။ အားပါးတရ။ He kissed her hungrily. ❍ She hungrily devoured two of the cakes.
❏ the hungry n [pl v ] ငတ်ပြတ်နေသူ။ အငတ်ပြဿနာ ရင်ဆိုင်နေရသူ။ feeding the hungry.

More examples
  • We were cold, tired, and hungry.
  • She was beginning to feel hungry again.
  • Hungry children search for food in the streets.
  • [go hungry] : If crops are destroyed, thousands may go hungry.
  • A hungry young actor
  • [hungry for] : People are hungry for news.
Synonyms
starving, famished, ravenous, aggressive, ambitious, athirst, avid, carnivorous, could eat a horse, covetous, craving, desirous, driven, eager, edacious, empty, esurient, famishing, flying light, got the munchies, greedy, hankering, hoggish, hollow, hungered, insatiate, keen, omnivorous, on empty stomach, peckish, piggish, power-hungry, rapacious, ravening, starved, starving; desirous, thirsty, thrusting, unfilled, unsatisfied, voracious, yearning
Antonyms
content, full, nonchalant, replete, satiated, satisfied, stuffed, unenthusiastic
Cross references
starvingfamishedravenousaggressiveambitiousathirstavidcarnivorouscould eat a horsecovetouscravingdesirousdriveneageredaciousemptyesurientfamishingflying lightgot the munchiesgreedyhankeringhoggishhollowhungeredinsatiatekeenomnivorous
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