What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Athirst vs Hungering - What's the difference?

athirst | hungering | Related terms |

Athirst is a related term of hungering.


As an adjective athirst

is (archaic) thirsty.

As a verb hungering is

.

As a noun hungering is

the condition of one who hungers.

athirst

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (archaic) Thirsty.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
    • Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.
  • * Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
    • To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year, but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner
  • (figuratively) Eager or extremely desirous (for something).

    • Anagrams

    * * *

    hungering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The condition of one who hungers.
  • * John Bunyan
    • He findeth, moreover, revealed in him the Saviour of the world, and the absolute necessity of closing with him for life; at the which he findeth hungerings and thirstings after him; to which hungerings, etc., the promise is made.