hunger

Meanings

Noun

• A need or compelling desire for food.
• Any strong desire.

Verb

• To be in need of food.
• To have a desire (for); to long; to yearn.
• To make hungry; to famish.

Related

Opposite words

• satiety
• satiation

Origin

• From Middle English hunger, from Old English hungor, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz, *hunhruz, from Proto-Indo-European *kenk-. Cognate with West Frisian honger, hûnger, Dutch honger, German Low German Hunger, German Hunger, Swedish hunger, Icelandic hungur.
• From Old English hyngran, from Proto-Germanic *hungrijaną.