hunger

[huhng-ger] / ˈhʌŋ gər /

NOUN

appetite for food, other desire

Synonyms

STRONGEST

craving desire famine greed longing lust starvation yearning

STRONG

ache appetence appetency emptiness esurience famishment gluttony greediness hungriness mania ravenousness vacancy void voracity want yen

WEAK

a stomach for appetition big eyes bottomless pit eyes for munchies sweet tooth

Antonyms

STRONGEST

disgust dislike distaste hate hatred

STRONG

fill fullness

WEAK

satiation satisfaction

Example Sentences

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A famine in the mid-1990s killed hundreds of thousands of people, and reports indicate that the Covid-19 pandemic also pushed many into extreme hunger.

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

There is no hunger from any Chelsea player currently on the pitch.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

Anthropic is turning to Amazon.com as it looks to satisfy its hunger for artificial-intelligence compute power, and that’s good news for suppliers to the tech giant’s chip ecosystem.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 21, 2026

One can readily sense the intellectual hostility to middlebrow culture, which in England dated back before the existence of a large and prosperous middle class with a hunger for culture.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026

I took another bite of lasagna even though I knew it wasn’t hunger, and for the first time I wished I hadn’t decided to mess with her.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

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