(hungrier, hungriest)
1.
When you are ~, you want some food because you have not eaten for some time and have an uncomfortable or painful feeling in your stomach.
My friend was ~, so we drove to a shopping mall to get some food...
? full
ADJ
hungrily
James ate hungrily.
ADV: ADV with v
2.
If people go ~, they do not have enough food to eat.
Leonidas’ family had been poor, he went ~ for years.
PHRASE: V inflects
3.
If you say that someone is ~ for something, you are emphasizing that they want it very much. (LITERARY)
I left Oxford in 1961 ~ to be a critic.
= eager
ADJ: usu v-link ADJ for n, v-link ADJ to-inf emphasis
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Hungry is also a combining form.
...power-~ politicians.
COMB in ADJ
hungrily
He looked at her hungrily. What eyes! What skin!
ADV: ADV with v