Meanings
- not comparableNot hungry.
To realize this unhungry man, who produces such avid beauty and horror […]
1965, Jonas Mekas, Film Culture2 more examples
I look back at the plate, thoroughly unhungry, pick up my fork, study the plate hard […]
1991, Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho, London: Picador, →ISBNHere 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
Origin
- Middle Englishunhungrye
- Englishunhungry
From Middle English unhungrye, equivalent to un- + hungry.
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