Voracious \Vo*ra"cious\, a. [L. vorax, -acis, fr. vorare to
devour; akin to Gr. ? meat, food, ? to devour, Skr. gar. Cf.
Devour.]
Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow;
ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious
man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool. --Dampier. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
voracious
adj 1: excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on
the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to
voracious governments" [syn: rapacious, ravening]
2: devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious
vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves";
"voracious sharks" [syn: edacious, esurient, rapacious,
ravening, ravenous, wolfish]
WordNet (r) 2.0
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "voracious":
Apician, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, ardent, avaricious,
avid, bolting, bottomless, cormorant, coveting, covetous, cramming,
crapulent, crapulous, desirous, devoted, devouring, dog-hungry,
eager, earnest, edacious, empty, enormous, enthusiastic, esurient,
famished, famishing, fasting, fervent, fervid, glutting,
gluttonizing, gluttonous, gobbling, gorging, grabby, grasping,
greedy, gulping, guttling, guzzling, half-famished, half-starved,
hoggish, hungering, hungry, hyperphagic, insatiable, insatiate,
intemperate, limitless, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry,
money-mad, omnivorous, overgreedy, passionate, peckish, piggish,
pinched with hunger, polyphagic, predacious, prodigious,
quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, satiating, sating,
sharp-set, slakeless, sordid, starved, starving, stuffing,
surfeiting, swinish, thirsty, unappeasable, unappeased,
uncontrollable, uncontrolled, unfilled, unquenchable, unsated,
unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, venal, wolfing, wolfish,
zealous
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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