Voracious

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
  • adj. Having or marked by an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; greedy: a voracious reader.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.
  • adj. Having a great appetite for anything (e.g., a voracious reader).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Greedy in eating; eating food in large quantities; marked by voracity; ravenous: as, a voracious man.
  • Rapacious.
  • Ready to swallow up: as, a voracious gulf or whirlpool.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. excessively greedy and grasping
  • adj. devouring or craving food in great quantities
  • Equivalent
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ravenous    gluttonous    edacious    rapacious    devouring    ravening    vulturous    cormorant    bulimic    bulimious   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ravenous    rapacious    carnivorous    predatory    greedy    omnivorous    ferocious    mutie    man-eating    flesh-eating