hunger | Definition of hunger

Synonyms and Antonyms of hunger

1 a need or desire for food

no degree of hunger would induce me to eat octopus

Synonyms of hunger

appetite, belly, emptiness, famishment, munchies, stomach

Words Related to hunger

rapaciousness, rapacity, ravenousness, voraciousness, voracity

malnutrition, starvation, undernourishment

craving, sweet tooth

famine, fast, hunger strike

gluttony, gourmandism, greed, hoggishness

Near Antonyms of hunger

fill, fullness, glut, repleteness, repletion, satiation, satiety, satisfaction, surfeit

Antonyms of hunger

2 a strong wish for something

a lonely girl with a desperate hunger for love

Synonyms of hunger

appetency, appetite, craving, desire, drive, hankering, itch, jones [slang], letch, longing, lust, passion, pining, thirst, thirstiness, urge, yearning, yen

Words Related to hunger

compulsion, impulse, impulsion, will, zeal

liking, love, taste, weakness

eagerness, impatience

necessity, need, requirement

acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, covetousness, cupidity, greed, greediness, rapaciousness, rapacity

cacoëthes, mania

Near Antonyms of hunger

abhorrence, abomination, allergy, averseness, aversion, disfavor, disgust, disinclination, dislike, disliking, distaste, hatred, loathing, nausea, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion

apathy, indifference, insouciance, nonchalance, unconcern

3 urgent desire or interest

reads everything he can find on airplanes with a seemingly insatiable hunger

Synonyms of hunger

appetite, ardor, avidity, avidness, desirousness, eagerness, enthusiasm, excitement, impatience, keenness, lust, thirst

Words Related to hunger

alacrity, quickness

ambition, gusto, zest

appetence, appetency, fervency, passion, warmth, zeal

amenability, readiness, willingness

Near Antonyms of hunger

casualness, insouciance, nonchalance, unconcern

aloofness, detachment

impassivity, languidness, languor

halfheartedness, lukewarmness

Antonyms of hunger

apathy, indifference