how to pronounce hungry

/ˈhʌŋɡɹiː/

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hungry is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of hungry in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… are clearly hungry for and so he bought …”

meanings of hungry

adjective:

Affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food.
Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.
Causing hunger.
Eager, having an avid desire (‘appetite') for something.

hungry frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word hungry occurs in english on average 33.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics hungry can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that hungry can be often used in the following areas:

1) food and health;

2) people, society, and culture;