Ravenous
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English
Adjective
Ravenous (comparative more Ravenous, superlative most Ravenous)
- very hungry
- eager for prey or gratification
- devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture
- extremely hungry
- craving food in great quantities
- a rapacious appetite
- ravenous as wolves
Synonyms
- starving, famished, starved, rapacious, ravening, voracious, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, all-engulfing, avaricious, bloodsucking, gluttonous, greedy, hoggish, insatiable, parasitic, predatory, unquenchable, unsatisfied, vulturous, wolfish, swinish, piggish, edacious
Thesaurus
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
