Ravenous \Rav"en*ous\ (r[a^]v"'n*[u^]s), a. [From 2d Raven.]
1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious;
hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture.
[1913 Webster]
2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite
or desire.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ravenous
adj 1: extremely hungry; "they were tired and famished for food and
sleep"; "a ravenous boy"; "the family was starved and
ragged"; "fell into the esurient embrance of a
predatory enemy" [syn: famished, sharp-set, starved,
esurient]
2: devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious
vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves";
"voracious sharks" [syn: edacious, esurient, rapacious,
ravening, voracious, wolfish]
WordNet (r) 2.0
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "ravenous":
Apician, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, all-engulfing,
avaricious, avid, bloodsucking, bolting, bottomless, coveting,
covetous, cramming, crapulent, crapulous, devouring, dog-hungry,
edacious, empty, esurient, extortionate, famished, famishing,
fasting, glutting, gluttonizing, gluttonous, gobbling, gorging,
grabby, grasping, greedy, gulping, guttling, guzzling,
half-famished, half-starved, hoggish, hungering, hungry,
hyperphagic, insatiable, insatiate, intemperate, limitless, lupine,
mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, omnivorous,
overgreedy, parasitic, peckish, piggish, pinched with hunger,
polyphagic, predacious, predatory, quenchless, rapacious,
raptorial, ravening, sharkish, sharp-set, slakeless, sordid,
starved, starving, stuffing, swinish, unappeasable, unappeased,
unfilled, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable,
unslaked, venal, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfing,
wolfish
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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