hunger
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈhʌŋɡər/
- Her hunger for knowledge drove her to read countless books.
- hunger for knowledge
- insatiable hunger
- hunger for power
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Watch on YouTubeWait, there's a hunger in me that is still not satisfied.
- Wait, there's a hunger in me that is still not satisfied.
- I think there's a hunger out there in the world.
- I think that you don't satisfy A moral hunger with fast food.
- And personally, this comes from my own hunger to do the things I don't know how to do.
- I, I do have a glimmer of hope that there seems to be more and more hunger for authenticity.
- Let's not waste the world because of our hunger for power or gain or wealth or whatever.
- In this case, they're doing it in a perpetual search for satisfying their own hunger for purpose and meaning.
- And you see a hunger for religious behaviour in these people.
- It's a form of consistency, motivation, and never lack hunger.
- And there's only three sources to feed the expense, the hung, the hunger of the expense monster.
- It's like this extremely positive slash negative high energy source of just hunger.
Examples
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I, I do have a glimmer of hope that there seems to be more and more hunger for authenticity.
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Wait, there's a hunger in me that is still not satisfied.
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Love is always a hunger for beauty.
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And so they, there is this hunger for something to believe in.
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But then I met you, and I felt this hunger, deep down inside.
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"There are needs of the soul that go beyond the hunger of the body."
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Let us just say, shall we, they have a great hunger for religion.
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Hunger can change everything you ever thought you knew about yourself.
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I think there's a hunger out there in the world.
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Really, what they brought with them was very little materially, but they brought this hunger for independence, this hunger for freedom.
Synonyms
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1.6
A strong wish to have or experience something
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2.1
A desire to eat or to have new experiences
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3.7
A very strong desire for things like food or cigarettes
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3.6
A strong wish to have or achieve something
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7.5
A strong desire for something
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7.0
A very strong wish for more that cannot be satisfied
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5.9
A strong desire to get or achieve something
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9.9
A strong desire to have or do something
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9.9
A strong wish to have or try something
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3.5
A strong desire for things like knowledge or success
A natural desire to eat or drink
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Compounds
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6.8
A famine in Ireland from 1846 to 1851 caused by a potato disease that forced many people to leave
How Hungry
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hunger also came to mean any strong desire beyond food because its root is the same as hungry, so a 'hunger' for knowledge or success is like a deep, driving need.