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craving - 20 thesaurus results
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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