Meaning

A need or compelling desire for food..

Definitions by Sense

1. A need or compelling desire for food.
2. (by extension) Any strong desire or need.
3. (intransitive) To be in need of food.
4. (figuratively, intransitive) To have a desire (for); to long; to yearn. [(usually) with for or after]
5. (archaic, transitive) To make hungry; to famish.

Example Sentences

I have a hunger to win.

O sacred hunger of ambitious minds!

When gangsters bump my shit, can they feel my hunger?

Putin's unwillingness to declare another partial reserve call up has created a wider manpower hunger in the Russian military and border service, and Putin alone maintains the ability to remedy this issue.

Therefore if thine enemie hunger, feed him: if he thirst, giue him drink. For in so doing thou shalt heape coales of fire on his head.

I hungered for your love.

Blessed are they which doe hunger and thirst after righteousnesse: for they shall be filled.

In our lives we hunger for those we cannot touch.

Word Forms

• hungers
• hungering
• hungered

Synonyms for hunger

Antonyms for hunger

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When Should You Use Hunger?

Use hunger when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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