hunger for adventure
- noun
:
ansia de aventura
- After reading countless travel books, his hunger for adventure grew stronger every day.
Examples
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Her hunger for adventure led her to travel to remote places around the world.
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I know that he can't match your hunger for adventure or your sense of humour and doesn't understand you sexually.
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The children's hunger for adventure was evident as they planned their camping trip in the woods.
Synonyms
78
3.7
A very strong desire for things like food or cigarettes
6
6.7
A strong desire to travel and see new places
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3.8
A wish to take risks and try new things
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4.4
Willingness to take risks and try new things
A strong wish to travel to wild places like rainforests for adventure
Antonyms
How Eager
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4.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a strong desire for exciting experiences' is directly and predictably composed from 'hunger' (craving/longing) + 'for' + 'adventure' (exciting experience), following a common noun + for + noun pattern. This construction and metaphor (desire for something) is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will easily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The phrase hunger for adventure creates the picture of hunger, a strong need, and adventure, an exciting trip, so imagine feeling empty until you set off to explore. So, it means 'a strong desire to have exciting or unusual experiences'.