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Hungry vs Unhungry - What's the difference?

hungry | unhungry |

As adjectives the difference between hungry and unhungry

is that hungry is affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food while unhungry is not hungry.

hungry

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food.
    • My kids go to bed hungry every night because I haven't got any money .
  • (figuratively) Eager, having an avid desire ('appetite') for something.
  • * Charles Kingsley
    • The cruel, hungry foam.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
  • Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.
    • a hungry soil
  • * Shakespeare
    • The hungry beach.

    Synonyms

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    Derived terms

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    See also

    * * 1000 English basic words

    unhungry

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not hungry.
  • * 1965 , Jonas Mekas, Film Culture?
    • To realize this unhungry man, who produces such avid beauty and horror...
  • * 1991 , Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
    • I look back at the plate, thoroughly unhungry , pick up my fork, study the plate hard...
  • * 1991 , Richard Francis Gombrich, Buddhist Precept and Practice
    • Here I detected another element creeping in: to keep the argument on one track I pointed a choice between feeding an unhungry monk and a hungry beggar.