Dictionary entry
Hungrier
Pronunciation: /ˈhʌŋɡri/
Pronunciation
/ˈhʌŋɡri/
Myanmar Meaning
(adj[com]) ပို၍ဆာ
Definition
hungry /'hʌŋgri/ adj ( -ier , -iest ) ၁။ (က) ဆာေသာ။ ဆာေလာင္ ေသာ။ I've got a hungry family to feed. ❍ Let's eat soon—I'm really hungry! ❍ I don't feel very hungry. (ခ) ငတ္ေသာ။ ငတ္ျပတ္ေသာ။ the hungry masses ❍ Thousands are going hungry because of the failure of the harvest. ၂။ ~ for sth [ဥ] မက္[ေသာ]။ ဆႏၵရိွ[ေသာ]။ အာသီသရိွ[ေသာ]။ The boy is simply hungry for affection. ❍ The crowd was hungry for more. ၃။ [usu attrib] မြတ္သိပ္ေသာ။ His eyes had a wild hungry look in them. ၄။ ( infml ) ဝမ္းဟာေစေသာ။ ဗိုက္ေခ်ာင္ေစေသာ။ Haymaking is hungry work. Compare THIRSTY ❏ hungrily /'hʌŋgrǝli/ adv အငမ္းမရ။ အားပါးတရ။ He kissed her hungrily. ❍ She hungrily devoured two of the cakes. ❏ the hungry n [pl v ] ငတ္ျပတ္ေနသူ။ အငတ္ျပႆနာ ရင္ဆိုင္ေနရသူ။ feeding the hungry.
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.