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hunger - 20 thesaurus results
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: 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: 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: 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
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
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
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
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
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
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