Ravenous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Extremely hungry; voracious.
  • adj. Rapacious; predatory.
  • adj. Greedy for gratification: ravenous for power. See Synonyms at voracious.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Very hungry.
  • adj. this sense?) Eager for prey or gratification.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage.
  • adj. Eager for prey or gratification.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; devouring with rapacious eagerness: as, a ravenous wolf, lion, or vulture; to be ravenous with hunger.
  • Greedily eager for gratification; tending to rapacity or voracity: as, ravenous appetite or desire.
  • Synonyms Voracious, etc. See rapacious.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. devouring or craving food in great quantities
  • adj. extremely hungry
  • Equivalent
    gluttonous    hungry   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    hungry    gluttonous    greedy    plundering    starving   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    insatiable    voracious    rapacious    predatory    wolfish    hungry    bloodthirsty    greedy    ferocious    insatiate