Synonyms of craving

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noun

as in desire

a strong wish for something

a pregnant woman with a craving for pickles

Synonyms & Similar Words

• desire
• longing
• thirst
• urge
• hunger
• appetite
• passion
• yearning
• taste
• lust
• hankering
• itch
• thirstiness
• compulsion
• wish
• yen
• love
• pining
• drive
• appetency
• need
• liking
• impulse
• jones
• zeal
• requirement
• obsession
• weakness
• impatience
• letch
• impulsion
• eagerness
• will
• necessity
• want
• greed
• greediness
• acquisitiveness
• avarice
• avidity
• cupidity
• rapacity
• mania
• covetousness
• avariciousness
• rapaciousness
• cacoëthes

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• hatred
• nausea
• disgust
• allergy
• dislike
• aversion
• revulsion
• distaste
• repulsion
• loathing
• repugnance
• abhorrence
• abomination
• indifference
• disinclination
• disfavor
• disliking
• apathy
• averseness
• nonchalance
• unconcern
• insouciance

craving

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adjective

as in jonesing

Synonyms & Similar Words

• jonesing
• addicted
• hooked
• dependent
• intoxicated
• strung out
• hopped-up
• stoned
• spaced
• ripped
• wiped out
• bombed
• blitzed
• blasted
• wasted
• loaded
• zonked-out
• zonked
• high
• spaced-out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• straight
• sober
• nonaddicted
• clean
• temperate
• abstinent
• abstemious
• clearheaded

craving

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verb

present participle of crave

as in wanting

to have an earnest wish to own or enjoy

craves ice cream at all hours of the day

Synonyms & Similar Words

• wanting
• desiring
• enjoying
• coveting
• dying (for)
• loving
• liking
• wishing (for)
• itching (for)
• yearning (for)
• thirsting (for)
• longing (for)
• panting (after)
• sighing (for)
• hankering (for or after)
• hungering (for)
• salivating (for)
• lusting (for or after)
• pining (for)
• aching (for)
• repining (for)
• preferring
• desiderating
• jonesing (for)
• relishing
• admiring
• yenning (for)
• setting one's heart on
• spoiling (for)
• fancying
• revelling (in)
• grooving (on)
• digging
• adoring
• delighting (in)
• reveling (in)
• appreciating
• favoring
• valuing
• cherishing
• treasuring
• prizing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• hating
• loathing
• despising
• abhorring
• detesting
• refusing
• rejecting
• declining
• execrating
• abominating
• spurning