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| Main Entry: | craving |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong desire |
| Synonyms: | appetite, hankering, hunger, itch*, longing, lust, need, passion, thirst, urge, yearning, yen*, appetition, hurting, munchies |
| Antonyms: | dislike, distaste, hate, indifference |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | desire intensely |
| Synonyms: | ache for, covet, cry out for, die for, dream, eat one's heart out, fancy, give eyeteeth for, hunger for, itch for, long for, lust after, need, pine for, require, sigh for, spoil for, suspire, thirst for, want, yearn for, yen for |
| Antonyms: | abjure, dislike, hate, not want, spurn |
| Main Entry: | crave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | beg |
| Synonyms: | ask, beseech, call for, demand, entreat, implore, necessitate, petition, require, seek, solicit, supplicate, take, plead for, pray for |
| Antonyms: | not want |
| Main Entry: | addiction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a habit of activity, often injurious |
| Synonyms: | bag*, bent, craving, enslavement, fixation, hang-up*, hook, inclination, kick*, monkey*, obsession, shot*, sweet tooth*, thing*, dependence, jones, monkey on back |
| Notes: | addiction is mainly physical while dependency is mostly psychological |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | appetite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desire for food, worldly goods |
| Synonyms: | craving, demand, fondness, greed, hankering, hunger, inclination, itch*, liking, longing, lust, passion, penchant, proclivity, propensity, relish, soft spot*, stomach, sweet tooth*, taste, thirst, urge, voracity, weakness, willingness, yearning, yen, zeal, zest, appetence, appetency, appetition, big eyes, gluttony, ravenousness |
| Antonyms: | antipathy, aversion, disgust, dislike, distaste, hatred, indifference, loathing, repulsion, revulsion |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | aspiration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | goal, hope |
| Synonyms: | aim, ambition, craving, desire, direction, dream, eagerness, endeavor, hankering, inclination, longing, object, objective, passion, pursuit, push, right stuff*, urge, vocation, wish, work, yearning, ambitiousness, fire in the belly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cupidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greed, strong desire |
| Synonyms: | avarice, avidity, covetousness, craving, eagerness, hunger, infatuation, longing, lust, passion, rapacity, voracity, yearning, acquisitiveness, avariciousness, graspingness, greediness, itching, possessiveness, rapaciousness |
| Antonyms: | dislike, distaste |
| Main Entry: | desirous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aspiring, hopeful |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, ambitious, amorous, anxious, avid, covetous, craving, desiring, eager, enthusiastic, grasping, greedy, hot*, itchy*, keen, longing, lustful, passionate, ready, stimulated, willing, wishful, wishing, yearning, prehensile, turned on |
| Antonyms: | reluctant, unenthusiastic, unambitious, unhopeful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | eager |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | anxious, enthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, agog, ambitious, antsy, appetent, ardent, athirst, avid, breathless, champing at the bit, covetous, craving, desiring, desirous, dying to, earnest, fervent, fervid, greedy, gung ho*, hankering, heated, hot to trot, hot*, hungry*, impatient, intent, keen, longing, pining, rarin' to go, ready and willing, restive, restless, self-starting, solicitous, thirsty, vehement, voracious, warmblooded, wild, wishful, yearning, zealous |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, disinterested, dispassionate, unconcerned, uneager, unenthusiastic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enterprising |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resourceful, energetic |
| Synonyms: | active, adventurous, aggressive, alert, ambitious, aspiring, audacious, bold, busy, craving, daring, dashing, diligent, driving, eager, enthusiastic, go-ahead*, hardworking, hungry, hustling, industrious, intrepid, keen, lively, peppy, progressive, pushing, ready, snappy, spanking, spark plug, spirited, stirring, up-and-coming*, venturesome, vigorous, yearning, zealous, zippy*, advancing, coming on strong, go-go, gumptious, hard ball, itching, lusting, self-starting, take-over |
| Antonyms: | inactive, passive, unimaginative, unadventurous, unambitious, unenthused, unresourceful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | envious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | jealous, resentful |
| Synonyms: | aspiring, covetous, craving, desiring, desirous, distrustful, grasping, greedy, green-eyed*, hankering, invidious, jaundiced, malicious, spiteful, suspicious, watchful, wishful, yearning, appetent, begrudging, coveting, fain, green with envy, grudging, longing for, umbrageous |
| Antonyms: | comfortable, confident, content, kind, pleased, unenvious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | greed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overwhelming desire for more |
| Synonyms: | avarice, avidity, covetousness, craving, cupidity, eagerness, excess, hunger, indulgence, intemperance, longing, rapacity, selfishness, voracity, acquisitiveness, edacity, esurience, gluttony, gormandizing, graspingness, insatiableness, piggishness, ravenousness, swinishness, the gimmies |
| Antonyms: | benevolence, generosity |
| Main Entry: | greedy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | desiring excessively |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, avid, carnivorous, close, covetous, craving, desirous, devouring, eager, gluttonous, grasping, hungry, impatient, insatiable, intemperate, itchy*, miserly, omnivorous, parsimonious, penurious, rapacious, ravenous, selfish, stingy, tight*, voracious, close-fisted, edacious, esurient, gobbling, gormandizing, grabby, grudging, gulping, guzzling, hoggish, insatiate, niggardly, pennypinching, piggish, prehensile, ravening, swinish, tight-fisted |
| Antonyms: | abstemious, benevolent, charitable, extravagant, generous, liberal, philanthropic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hankering |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong desire |
| Synonyms: | ache, craving, hunger, itch*, longing, thirst, urge, want, weakness, wish, yearning, yen, druthers, fire in belly, munchies, pining |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hunger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appetite for food, other desire |
| Synonyms: | ache, bottomless pit*, craving, desire, emptiness, famine, greed, longing, lust, mania, starvation, sweet tooth*, vacancy, void, voracity, want, yearning, yen, a stomach for, appetence, appetency, appetition, big eyes, esurience, eyes for, famishment, gluttony, greediness, hungriness, munchies, ravenousness |
| Antonyms: | satisfaction, satiation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hungry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | starving; desirous |
| Synonyms: | avid, carnivorous, covetous, craving, eager, empty, famished, greedy, hankering, hollow, keen, omnivorous, rapacious, ravenous, starved, unfilled, unsatisfied, voracious, yearning, athirst, could eat a horse, edacious, esurient, famishing, flying light, got the munchies, hoggish, hungered, insatiate, on empty stomach, piggish |
| Antonyms: | full, replete, satisfied, stuffed, satiated |
| Main Entry: | longing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | desirous |
| Synonyms: | anxious, ardent, avid, craving, eager, hungry, languishing, ravenous, wishful, wistful, yearning, pining |
| Antonyms: | loathing, despising, hating |
| Main Entry: | longing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong desire |
| Synonyms: | ambition, aspiration, craving, hankering, hunger, itch, thirst, urge, wish, yearning, yen, coveting, fire in the belly, hungering, pining |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | lust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appetite, passion |
| Synonyms: | avidity, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, cupidity, desire, eroticism, excitement, fervor, greed, hunger, itch, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, libido, longing, thirst, urge, weakness, yen, animalism, aphrodisia, appetence, appetition, carnality, licentiousness, prurience, pruriency, salaciousness, salacity, sensualism, sensuality, wantonness |
| Antonyms: | chastity, disgust, disenchantment |
| Main Entry: | mania |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fixation, madness |
| Synonyms: | aberration, ax to grind*, bee*, bug*, compulsion, craving, craze, delirium, dementia, derangement, desire, disorder, enthusiasm, fad, fancy, fascination, fetish, frenzy, furor, hang-up*, idée fixe, infatuation, insanity, lunacy, obsession, partiality, passion, preoccupation, rage, thing, tiger*, bee in bonnet, bug in ear, craziness, fixed idea, grabber, monomania, on the brain, tiger by the tail |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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