more hungry vs hungrier

The correct phrase is "hungrier." Both phrases are comparing the level of hunger, but "hungrier" is the comparative form of "hungry" and is the standard way to express this comparison in English.

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more hungry

This phrase is not correct in English. The comparative form of "hungry" is "hungrier."

The correct way to express a comparison of hunger levels is by using the word "hungrier."

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Not if you're more hungry than scared.
It causes you to feel more hungry and decreases your fat loss.
I'm more hungry than scared but...
The bear that's approaching could not be more hungry.
These enzymes will certainly send out the details to human brain, that they are no more hungry.
When you're deprived of something, it just makes you all the more hungry for it.
It maintains the standard of food and makes it more hungry.
The other indicator is feeling more hungry.
This is a hormone that makes you feel more hungry the next day.
They are no more hungry than this village.
He did his best to mate, but his efforts have only made him more hungry.
You'll feel more hungry than normal, sleep more than usual and experience 'growth pains'.
These rabids are getting more vicious, the more hungry they get.
More hungry, less hungry, food cravings, weight loss, weight gain.
Who's more hungry?
Who's more hungry?
I'm more hungry than scared but...
It was not a pleasant world - there were more hungry people around then than there are today.
One kitten and one adult have different nutritional needs: kittens are usually more hungry and they will need to eat several times in a day.
And then, that is, after having a nice time, you would have become even more hungry... and if you went to eat some fries... I could find some people that can remember what time they saw you.

Alternatives:

hungrier than
more famished
more ravenous
more peckish
more starved

hungrier

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to express a higher level of hunger compared to another.

Use "hungrier" when comparing the level of hunger between two or more things or people.

Examples:

I am hungrier than I was yesterday.
She is always hungrier after exercising.
The children were getting hungrier as dinner time approached.
He felt hungrier than he had ever felt before.
Are you feeling hungrier than usual today?

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Maybe your hippo's just hungrier hungrier than ours.
The younger, hungrier Richard Roberts.
Nothing makes you hungrier or more tired than grief.
Anything we feed them is going to make them hungrier.
It'll make us hungrier, work harder.
Lots of people on this earth have been a lot hungrier than us.
The trouble is I'm quicker than they are and hungrier.
Your son look hungrier than you are.
I've noticed they've been a lot hungrier lately.
Well, he's over fourteen now and still his eyes are hungrier than his stomach.
Let's just get this thing back in a cage before it gets eaten by something hungrier and bigger.
Well, when you first turn, you are hungrier than you've ever been in your entire life.
I mean, we're leaner and hungrier than our other competition which is why we can offer the lowest prices in town.
MESSINGER: You wake up all smelly, and aching from head to toe... and hungrier than you've ever been... only you have no idea what hunger is or any of it's all real confusing and painful, but very, very good.
The creatures are getting hungrier.
Well, I'm hungrier.
He's hungrier, Matt.
Don't bother. I'm hungrier than I am sentimental.
Made me hungrier than I was before I ate it.
The people would've been hungrier.

Alternatives:

more famished
more ravenous
more peckish
more starved
more voracious

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