Ravenous

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  • adjective. Extremely hungry or characterized by extreme hunger; voracious.
  • adjective. Predatory or ferocious in predation.
  • adjective. Eager for gratification or extremely desirous.
    • 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.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage.
  • adjective. Eager for prey or gratification.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Very hungry.
  • adjective. Eager for prey or gratification.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. devouring or craving food in great quantities
  • adjective. extremely hungry
    • Word Usage
    "He’d been hungry himself before, but he’d never understood the term ravenous until he watched her eat."
    Equivalent
    gluttonous  hungry  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bloodthirsty  carnivorous  enrage  ferocious  frenzied  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Apician  a hog for  acquisitive  all-devouring  all-engulfing  
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