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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unhungry en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English unhungrye, equivalent to un- + hungry.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not hungry.
    • I look back at the plate, thoroughly unhungry, pick up my fork, study the plate hard […] 1991, Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho, London: Picador, →ISBN:
    • To realize this unhungry man, who produces such avid beauty and horror […] 1965, Jonas Mekas, Film Culture:
    • 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. 1991, Richard Francis Gombrich, Buddhist Precept and Practice: