HUNGER meaning: Intense need or desire for food

We found 42 dictionaries that define the word hunger:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

hunger: Merriam-Webster
hunger: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
hunger: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
hunger: Collins English Dictionary
hunger: Vocabulary.com
Hunger, hunger: Wordnik
hunger: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
hunger: Wiktionary
hunger: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
hunger: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
hunger: Infoplease Dictionary
hunger: Dictionary.com
hunger: Online Etymology Dictionary
hunger: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Hunger: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
hunger: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
hunger: Rhymezone
Hunger (m), hunger: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
hunger: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
hunger: FreeDictionary.org
hunger: Mnemonic Dictionary
hunger: TheFreeDictionary.com
hunger: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
hunger: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
Hunger: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

hunger: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)

hunger: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
Hunger: Merck Manuals
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
hunger: Medical dictionary
University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
hunger: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

hunger: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
The Hunger, hunger: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

Dairy Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A need or compelling desire for food.
▸ noun:  (by extension) Any strong desire or need.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To be in need of food.
▸ verb:  (figuratively, intransitive, usually with 'for' or 'after') To have a desire (for); to long; to yearn.
▸ verb:  (archaic, transitive) To make hungry; to famish.

Similar:

hungriness, thirst, crave, starve, lust, starvation, appetite, unsatiated, famine, Pangs, more...

Opposite:

satiety, fullness, satisfaction, repletion, satiation

Types:

physical hunger, emotional hunger, spiritual hunger, chronic hunger, acute hunger, hidden hunger, overwhelming hunger, more...

Phrases:

from hunger, hunger strike, world hunger, hunger strikes, hunger pangs, more...

Adjectives:

great, spiritual, insatiable, own, cold, extreme, physical, real, ravenous, sexual, widespread

Colors:

red, orange, maroon, burgundy, crimson, more...