1. A physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation
   - hungriness 
2. Strong desire for something (not food or drink)
   "hunger for affection"
   - hungriness, thirst, thirstiness

1. Feel the need to eat 
2. Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
   - crave, thirst, starve, lust 
3. Be hungry; go without food
   - starve, famish

Derived forms: hungers, hungered, hungering

See also: hungry

Type of: ache, desire, drive, hurt, smart, suffer, want

Encyclopedia: Hunger

• Penstemon palmeri
• Penstemon parryi
• Penstemon rupicola
• Penstemon rydbergii
• Penstemon serrulatus
• Penstemon whippleanus
• penstock
• pent
• pent-up
• penta-
• pentacle
• pentad
• pentaerythritol
• pentagon
• Pentagon Gang
• pentagonal
• pentagram
• pentahedral
• pentahedron
• mud plantain
• mud puddle
• mud puppy
• mud stain
• mud turtle
• mud-beplastered