'Ravenous' definitions:
Definition of 'ravenous'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Ravenous'
From: GCIDE
- Ravenous \Rav"en*ous\ (r[a^]v"'n*[u^]s), a. [From 2d Raven.]
- 1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. [1913 Webster] -- {Rav"en*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Rav"en*ous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'ravenous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a hog for,
- acquisitive,
- all-devouring,
- all-engulfing,
- Apician,
- 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