unhungry

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English

Etymology

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

Adjective

unhungry (not comparable)

  1. 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, London: Picador, →ISBN:
      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.