I have a craving for fresh fruit.
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Craving
//ˈkɹeɪ.vɪŋ//
Synonyms for "craving" (89 found)
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Closest matches (18)
Strong matches (27)
Related words (44)
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3 entriesRelated terms
9 entriescauses desire
2 entriesderived from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesform of
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
3 entriesTranslations
83 translations across 30 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ὄρεξις noun (strong desire; yearning)
Arabic
4 entries- تَشَوُّق noun (strong desire; yearning)
- تَوْق noun (strong desire; yearning)
- شَبَق m [sexual craving] noun (strong desire; yearning)
- غُلْمَة m [sexual craving] noun (strong desire; yearning)
Belarusian
3 entries- прага noun (strong desire; yearning)
- цяга noun (strong desire; yearning)
- імкненне noun (strong desire; yearning)
Bulgarian
2 entries- жажда noun (strong desire; yearning)
- копнеж noun (strong desire; yearning)
Catalan
1 entries- ànsia noun (strong desire; yearning)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 渴望 noun (strong desire; yearning)
- 癖好 noun (strong desire; yearning)
Czech
1 entries- choutky noun (strong desire; yearning)
Finnish
4 entries- halu noun (strong desire; yearning)
- hinku noun (strong desire; yearning)
- jano noun (strong desire; yearning)
- tarve noun (strong desire; yearning)
French
1 entries- désir ardent noun (strong desire; yearning)
German
4 entries- Begierde noun (strong desire; yearning)
- Gelüst noun (strong desire; yearning)
- Heißhunger noun (strong desire; yearning)
- Sehnsucht noun (strong desire; yearning)
Greek
3 entries- δίψα noun (strong desire; yearning)
- λαχτάρα noun (strong desire; yearning)
- πόθος noun (strong desire; yearning)
Hebrew
2 entries- חֵשֶׁק noun (strong desire; yearning)
- תַּאֲוָה noun (strong desire; yearning)
Hungarian
4 entries- epekedés noun (strong desire; yearning)
- kívánás noun (strong desire; yearning)
- kívánósság noun (strong desire; yearning)
- mohó/gyötrő/kínzó/heves vágy noun (strong desire; yearning)
Ingrian
1 entries- kaiho noun (strong desire; yearning)
Irish
4 entries- aimirne noun (strong desire; yearning)
- andúil noun (strong desire; yearning)
- anrachán noun (strong desire; yearning)
- dúil noun (strong desire; yearning)
Italian
1 entries- brama noun (strong desire; yearning)
Japanese
3 entries- 切望 noun (strong desire; yearning)
- 渇望 noun (strong desire; yearning)
- 熱望 noun (strong desire; yearning)
Ladin
1 entries- gola noun (strong desire; yearning)
Latgalian
4 entries- olka noun (strong desire; yearning)
- steigsme noun (strong desire; yearning)
- tveiksme noun (strong desire; yearning)
- tveikys noun (strong desire; yearning)
Latvian
2 entries- alkas noun (strong desire; yearning)
- kāre noun (strong desire; yearning)
Malayalam
1 entries- വ്യാക്ക് noun (strong desire; yearning)
Polish
2 entries- zachcianka noun (strong desire; yearning)
- żądza noun (strong desire; yearning)
Portuguese
3 entries- anelo noun (strong desire; yearning)
- sofreguidão noun (strong desire; yearning)
- ânsia noun (strong desire; yearning)
Romanian
4 entries- ardoare noun (strong desire; yearning)
- poftă noun (strong desire; yearning)
- râvnă noun (strong desire; yearning)
- sete noun (strong desire; yearning)
Russian
4 entries- влече́ние noun (strong desire; yearning)
- жа́жда noun (strong desire; yearning)
- пристра́стие noun (strong desire; yearning)
- стремле́ние noun (strong desire; yearning)
Sicilian
1 entries- disìu noun (strong desire; yearning)
Spanish
4 entries- angurria noun (strong desire; yearning)
- anhelo noun (strong desire; yearning)
- ansia noun (strong desire; yearning)
- prurito noun (strong desire; yearning)
Swedish
2 entries- begär noun (strong desire; yearning)
- längtan noun (strong desire; yearning)
Tocharian B
1 entries- kāwalyñe noun (strong desire; yearning)
Welsh
1 entries- chwant noun (strong desire; yearning)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
I suddenly got a craving to eat some crisp roast chicken skin.
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Tom has a craving for chocolate ice cream.
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She has a ravenous craving for chocolate.
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