hunger
noun
[ ˈhʌŋɡə ]
• a feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by lack of food, coupled with the desire to eat.
• "she was faint with hunger"
Similar:
lack of food,
need for food,
hungriness,
ravenousness,
emptiness,
starvation,
famine,
malnutrition,
malnourishment,
undernourishment,
famishment,
inanition,
hunger
verb
• have a strong desire or craving for.
• "he hungered for a sense of self-worth"
Similar:
desire,
crave,
have a craving for,
long for,
yearn for,
have a yearning for,
pine for,
ache for,
thirst for,
have an appetite for,
hanker after,
lust after,
want,
need,
have a yen for,
itch for,
be dying for,
be gagging for,
be athirst for,
be desirous of,
Opposite:
have an aversion to,
• feel or suffer hunger.
• "when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterwards hungered"
Origin:
Old English hungor (noun), hyngran (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch honger and German Hunger .
