2 entries found for hunger.
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Function: noun
Text: 1 a need or desire for food <no amount of hunger would induce me to eat octopus>
Synonyms appetite, emptiness, famishment
Related Words rapaciousness, ravenousness, voracity; malnutrition, starvation, undernourishment; craving, sweet tooth; stomach; famine, fast, hunger strike; gluttony, gourmandism, greed, hoggishness
Near Antonyms fill, fullness, glut, repletion, satiation, satiety, satisfaction
2 a strong wish for something <a lonely girl with a hunger for love> -- see DESIRE
3 urgent desire or interest <reads everything he can find on airplanes with a seemingly insatiable hunger> -- see EAGERNESS