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hunger

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of hunger

1 a need or desire for food

  • no degree of hunger would induce me to eat octopus
Synonyms of hunger

appetite, belly, emptiness, famishment, munchies, stomach
Words Related to hunger

rapaciousness, rapacity, ravenousness, voraciousness, voracity

malnutrition, starvation, undernourishment

craving, sweet tooth

famine, fast, hunger strike

gluttony, gourmandism, greed, hoggishness
Near Antonyms of hunger

fill, fullness, glut, repleteness, repletion, satiation, satiety, satisfaction, surfeit
Antonyms of hunger

inappetence

2 a strong wish for something

  • a lonely girl with a desperate hunger for love
Synonyms of hunger

appetency, appetite, craving, desire, drive, hankering, itch, jones [slang], letch, longing, lust, passion, pining, thirst, thirstiness, urge, yearning, yen
Words Related to hunger

compulsion, impulse, impulsion, will, zeal

liking, love, taste, weakness

eagerness, impatience

want, wish

necessity, need, requirement

obsession

acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, covetousness, cupidity, greed, greediness, rapaciousness, rapacity

cacoëthes, mania
Near Antonyms of hunger

abhorrence, abomination, allergy, averseness, aversion, disfavor, disgust, disinclination, dislike, disliking, distaste, hatred, loathing, nausea, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion

apathy, indifference, insouciance, nonchalance, unconcern

3 urgent desire or interest

  • reads everything he can find on airplanes with a seemingly insatiable hunger
Synonyms of hunger

appetite, ardor, avidity, avidness, desirousness, eagerness, enthusiasm, excitement, impatience, keenness, lust, thirst
Words Related to hunger

alacrity, quickness

ambition, gusto, zest

appetence, appetency, fervency, passion, warmth, zeal

amenability, readiness, willingness
Near Antonyms of hunger

casualness, insouciance, nonchalance, unconcern

aloofness, detachment

impassivity, languidness, languor

halfheartedness, lukewarmness
Antonyms of hunger

apathy, indifference

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