different between hungry vs appetitive

English

Etymology

From Middle English hungry, from Old English hungri?, hungre?, hyngri?, from Proto-West Germanic *hungrug, from Proto-Germanic *hungrugaz (“hungry”); equivalent to hunger +? -y. Cognate with West Frisian hongerich (“hungry”), Dutch hongerig (“hungry”), German hungrig (“hungry”), Swedish hungrig (“hungry”), Icelandic hungraður (“hungry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h??.??i/
• Homophone: Hungary (in some accents)

Adjective

hungry (comparative hungrier, superlative hungriest)

1. Affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food; such as a person's stomach rumbling, growling or grumbling.

2. Causing hunger

   All this gardening is hungry work.

3. (figuratively) Eager, having an avid desire (‘appetite’) for something.
   • 1850, Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke, London: Chapman & Hall, Volume 2, Chapter 5, p. 56,^[1]

     They rowed her in across the rolling foam,

     The cruel, crawling foam,

     The cruel, hungry foam,

     To her grave beside the sea:

   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene 2,^[2]

     Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;

4. Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.
   • c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act V, Scene 3,^[3]

     […] What is this?

     Your knees to me? to your corrected son?

     Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach

     Fillip the stars […]

Synonyms

• (affected by hunger, desiring food): famished, peckish, starving

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• thirsty
• I am hungry

Middle English

Alternative forms

• (Early ME) hungrig, hunngri?, houngrie
• hungrie, hungri, hungre, hungery, hongry, hungury, hungorie, hungrye

Etymology

From Old English hungri?, from Proto-Germanic *hungragaz; equivalent to hunger +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hun?ri?/, [?hu??ri?]

Adjective

hungry

1. Hungry or starving; afflicted by hunger or starvation.
2. Voracious; having a great desire or compulsion to eat.
3. Haggard, scrawny; shriveled due to hunger or starvation.
4. (rare) Due to hunger; because of one's appetite.
5. (rare) Desirous; wanting something to a great degree.
6. (rare) Causing or producing hunger.
7. (rare) Of earth; not productive.

Descendants

• English: hungry
• Scots: hungry
• Yola: hungree

References

• “hungr?(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-19.

Noun

hungry

1. Those who are hungry, starving, or of little means.

References

• “hungr?(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-19.

English

Etymology

appetite +? -ive

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æp?.p?.ta?.t?v/

Adjective

appetitive (comparative more appetitive, superlative most appetitive)

1. Having the quality of desiring gratification.

Translations

Italian

Adjective

appetitive

1. feminine plural of appetitivo

Latin

Adjective

appet?t?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of appet?t?vus