hunger
A need or compelling desire for food.
Noun 2 meanings
A need or compelling desire for food.
Any strong desire or need.
“I have a hunger to win.”
Verb 2 meanings
To be in need of food.
To have a desire (for); to long; to yearn.
“I hungered for your love.”
Etymology
From Middle English hunger, from Old English hungor (“hunger, desire; famine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz, *hunhruz (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *kenk- (“to burn, smart, desire, hunger, thirst”).
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HUNGER at a glance
HUNGER has 6 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (H 4 + U 1 + N 1 + G 2 + E 1 + R 1) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,961 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with hunger
All rhymesOne letter away
- HUNTER9
- HANGER10
- HUGGER11
- HUNKER13
- LUNGER7
- BUNGER9
- DUNGER8
- HINGER10
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