Entry Word: hunger

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a need or desire for food <no amount of hunger would induce me to eat octopus>

Synonyms appetite, emptiness, famishment

Related Words rapaciousness, ravenousness, voracity; malnutrition, starvation, undernourishment; craving, sweet tooth; stomach; famine, fast, hunger strike; gluttony, gourmandism, greed, hoggishness

Near Antonyms fill, fullness, glut, repletion, satiation, satiety, satisfaction

2 a strong wish for something <a lonely girl with a hunger for love> — see desire
3 urgent desire or interest <reads everything he can find on airplanes with a seemingly insatiable hunger> — see eagerness