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- [huhng-gree]
- /ˈhʌŋ gri/
- /ˈhʌŋgrɪnəs /
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- [huhng-gree]
- /ˈhʌŋ gri/
Definitions of hungriness word
- adjective hungriness having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger. 1
- adjective hungriness indicating, characteristic of, or characterized by hunger: He approached the table with a hungry look. 1
- adjective hungriness strongly or eagerly desirous. 1
- adjective hungriness lacking needful or desirable elements; not fertile; poor: hungry land. 1
- adjective hungriness marked by a scarcity of food: The depression years were hungry times. 1
- adjective hungriness Informal. aggressively ambitious or competitive, as from a need to overcome poverty or past defeats: a hungry investment firm looking for wealthy clients. 1
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Origin of hungriness
First appearance:
before 950 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 950; Middle English, Old English hungrig. See hunger, -y1
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Parts of speech for Hungriness
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
hungriness popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 93% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
According to our data about 72% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.
hungriness usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for hungriness
noun hungriness
- desire — A desire is a strong wish to do or have something.
- lust — intense sexual desire or appetite.
- longing — strong, persistent desire or craving, especially for something unattainable or distant: filled with longing for home.
- famine — extreme and general scarcity of food, as in a country or a large geographical area.
- yearning — deep longing, especially when accompanied by tenderness or sadness: a widower's yearning for his wife.
Antonyms for hungriness
noun hungriness
- disgust — to cause loathing or nausea in.
- dislike — to regard with displeasure, antipathy, or aversion: I dislike working. I dislike oysters.
- distaste — dislike; disinclination.
- hate — to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
- hatred — the feeling of one who hates; intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility.
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