HUN'GRY, adjective Having a keen appetite; feeling pain or uneasiness from want of food. Eat only when you are hungry 1. Having an eager desire. 2. Lean; emaciated, as if reduced by hunger. Cassius has a lean and hungry look. 3. Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; requiring substances to enrich itself; as a hungry soil; a hungry gravel.
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