n. 1 hungriness, emptiness, appetite, ravenousness, voraciousness, voracity; famine, starvation We ate leaves to stave off the pangs of hunger Some optimists hope to eliminate hunger from the planet by the year 2000. 2 yearning, desire, craving, itch, thirst, longing, hankering, mania, cupidity, Formal cacoethes, Colloq yen She felt an insatiable hunger for intellectual companionship
v. 3 Usually, hunger for or after. crave, yearn, desire, thirst, want, hanker, Colloq yen, have a yen Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness