Word Meanings - CRAVING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Vehement or urgent desire; longing for; beseeching. A succession of cravings and satiety. L'Estrange. -- Crav"ing*ly, adv. -- Crav"ing*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CRAVING)

• Appetite
• Passion
• desire
• propensity
• proclivity
• inclination
• propension
• appetency
• want
• craving
• disposition
• tendency
• proneness
• Aspiration
• Longing
• aim
• wish
• ambition
• endeavor
• hope
• appetition
• effort
• eagerness
• Desire
• affection
• concupiscence
• Eagerness
• aspiration
• yearning
• wishing
• Petition
• Supplication
• entreaty
• application
• appeal
• salutation
• prayer
• request
• instance

Related words: (words related to CRAVING)

• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• INSTANCE
  1. The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion. Undertook at her instance to restore them. Sir W. Scott. 2. That which is instant or urgent; motive. The instances that second marriage
• YEARN
  To be filled with longing desire; to be harassed or rendered uneasy with longing, or feeling the want of a thing; to strain with emotions of affection or tenderness; to long; to be eager. Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother;
• LONGIPALP
  One of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi.
• LONGSPUN
  Spun out, or extended, to great length; hence, long-winded; tedious. The longspun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below. Addison.
• APPEALER
  One who makes an appeal.
• LONG
  1. To a great extent in apace; as, a long drawn out line. 2. To a great extent in time; during a long time. They that tarry long at the wine. Prov. xxiii. 30. When the trumpet soundeth long. Ex. xix. 13. 3. At a point of duration far
• LONGSOME
  Extended in length; tiresome. Bp. Hall. Prior. -- Long"some*ness, n. Fuller.
• LONGULITE
  A kind of crystallite having a acicular form.
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• LONGSHORE
  Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning.
• LONGIMETRY
  The art or practice of measuring distances or lengths. Cheyne.
• PASSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
• LONG-STOP
  One who is set to stop balls which pass the wicket keeper.
• ENTREATY
  1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;
• AMBITIONIST
  One excessively ambitious.
• APPEAL
  appellare to approach, address, invoke, summon, call, name; akin to appellere to drive to; ad + pellere to drive. See Pulse, and cf. To make application for the removal of from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review
• LONG-TONGUE
  The wryneck.
• PETITIONARILY
  By way of begging the question; by an assumption. Sir T. Browne.
• ASPIRATION
  1. The act of aspirating; the pronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound. If aspiration be defined to be an impetus of breathing. Wilkins. 2. The act of breathing; a breath; an inspiration. 3. The act
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• ILL-WISHER
  One who wishes ill to another; an enemy.
• RAWISH
  Somewhat raw. Marston.
• KALONG
  A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat (Pteropus edulis).
• ALONGSIDE
  Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.
• OUTPASSION
  To exceed in passion.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
• OBLONGLY
  In an oblong form.