Hungry vs Sumptuous - What's the difference?
hungry | sumptuous |
Affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food.
(figuratively) Eager, having an avid desire ('appetite') for something.
* Charles Kingsley
* Shakespeare
Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.
* Shakespeare
Magnificent, luxurious, splendid.
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As adjectives the difference between hungry and sumptuous
is that hungry is affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food while sumptuous is magnificent, luxurious, splendid.hungry
English
Adjective
(er)- My kids go to bed hungry every night because I haven't got any money .
- The cruel, hungry foam.
- Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
- a hungry soil
- The hungry beach.
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* * 1000 English basic wordssumptuous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,
- He sees his little lot the lot of all;
- Sees no contiguous palace rear its head
- To shame the meanness of his humble shed;
- No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal
- To make him loathe his vegetable meal;
citation, passage=I wandered on until I came to a sumptuous palace with a garden adorned with fountains and fishponds, and groves and flowers, and orchards laden with delicious fruit.}}
citation, page= , passage=Cabaye pulled all the strings in a dominant home performance and capped a majestic individual display with a sumptuous first-time finish into the far corner for his second goal of the afternoon.}}