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| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | dream |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conjure up scenario |
| Synonyms: | brainstorm, conceive, concoct, cook up*, crave, create, daydream, devise, envisage, fancy, fantasize, formulate, hallucinate, hanker*, hatch*, hunger, idealize, imagine, invent, long, lust, make up, picture, pine, sigh, sublimate, think, thirst, visualize, be delirious, be moonstruck, be up in clouds, build castles in air, have a flash, have a nightmare, have a notion, have a vision, search for pot of gold, stargaze, think up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | eagerness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm, anxiousness |
| Synonyms: | alacrity, ambition, anticipation, ardor, avidity, earnestness, excitement, fervor, gusto, hunger, impatience, keenness, longing, promptness, quickness, solicitude, thirst, vehemence, voracity, yearning, zeal, zest, zing*, greediness, heartiness, impetuosity, intentness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, disinterest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | envy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be jealous of another |
| Synonyms: | be envious, begrudge, covet, crave, desire, die over, eat one's heart out, grudge, hanker, have hard feelings, hunger, long, lust, object to, resent, thirst, turn green, want, yearn |
| Notes: | jealousy is reflective of a person's feelings or attitudes toward another person, whereas envy expresses a person's feelings or attitudes toward another person's advantages or accomplishments; jealousy pertains to emotional rivalry while envy is resentment of a more fortunate person |
| Antonyms: | be confident, be content |
| 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: | hanker after/hanker for |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | desire strongly |
| Synonyms: | ache, covet, crave, hunger, itch, long, lust, pine, sigh, thirst, want, wish, yearn, yen, partial to |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate |
| 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: | languish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | droop; become dull, listless |
| Synonyms: | brood, decline, desire, deteriorate, dwindle, ebb, fade, fail, faint, flag, go to pieces*, grieve, hanker, hunger, knock out, long, pine, repine, rot, sicken, sigh, snivel, sorrow, suffer, waste, weaken, wilt, wither, yearn, be disregarded, be neglected, conk out*, despond, die on vine, fag, fag out, fizzle out, go soft, tucker, waste away |
| Antonyms: | flourish, grow, improve, strengthen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | long |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | desire, crave |
| Synonyms: | ache, aim, aspire, covet, hanker, hunger, itch, lust, miss, pine, sigh, thirst, want, wish, yearn, dream of, have a yen for, spoil for, suspire |
| Antonyms: | despise, dislike, hate |
| 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: | malnutrition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poor nutrition |
| Synonyms: | anorexia nervosa, hunger, starvation, bulimia, dietary deficiency, malnourishment, undernourishment |
| Main Entry: | motivation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ambition, inspiration |
| Synonyms: | action, angle, catalyst, desire, disposition, drive, encouragement, fire, gimmick, hunger, impetus, impulse, incentive, incitement, inclination, inducement, instigation, interest, kick*, motive, persuasion, predisposition, provocation, push, reason, right stuff*, spur, stimulus, suggestion, wish, actuation, get up and go, goose*, impulsion, incitation, predetermination |
| Antonyms: | depression, discouragement |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | need |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | want something |
| Synonyms: | call for, claim, covet, crave, demand, desire, do without, exact, hanker, hunger, lack, long, lust, miss, necessitate, pine, require, thirst, wish, yearn, be deficient, be deprived, be down and out, be hard up, be in need of, be in want, be inadequate, be needy, be poor, be short, be without, die for, drive for, feel a dearth of, feel the necessity for, feel the pinch, go hungry, have occasion for, have occasion to, have use for, hurt for, suffer privation, yen for |
| Antonyms: | have, do not want |
| Main Entry: | thirst |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | craving (especially for liquid) |
| Synonyms: | appetite, desire, drought, dryness, eagerness, hankering, hunger, keenness, longing, lust, passion, yearning, yen, aridity, thirstiness |
| Main Entry: | wish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desire |
| Synonyms: | ambition, aspiration, choice, disposition, hankering, hope, hunger, inclination, intention, invocation, itch, liking, longing, pleasure, prayer, preference, request, thirst, urge, want, whim, will, yearning, yen |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | wish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | desire |
| Synonyms: | aspire, beg, choose, command, covet, crave, desiderate, elect, entreat, envy, expect, fancy, hanker*, hope, hunger, invoke, itch, like, long, look forward to, need, order, please, pray for, prefer, request, set one's heart on, sigh for, solicit, spoil for, thirst, want, will, yearn, yen |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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