'Voracious' definitions:
Definition of 'voracious'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Voracious'
From: GCIDE
- Voracious \Vo*ra"cious\, a. [L. vorax, -acis, fr. vorare to devour; akin to Gr. ? meat, food, ? to devour, Skr. gar. Cf. Devour.] Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool. --Dampier. -- {Vo*ra"cious*ly}, adv. -- {Vo*ra"cious*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'voracious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a hog for,
- acquisitive,
- all-devouring,
- Apician,
- ardent,
- avaricious,
- avid,
- bolting,
- bottomless,
- cormorant,
- coveting,
- covetous,
- cramming,
- crapulent,
- crapulous,
- desirous,
- devoted,
- devouring,
- dog-hungry,
- eager,
- earnest,
- edacious,
- empty,
- enormous,
- enthusiastic,
- esurient,
- famished,
- famishing,
- fasting,
- fervent,
- fervid,
- glutting,
- gluttonizing,
- gluttonous,
- gobbling,
- gorging,
- grabby,
- grasping,
- greedy,
- gulping,
- guttling,
- guzzling,
- half-famished,
- half-starved,
- hoggish,
- hungering,
- hungry,
- hyperphagic,
- insatiable,
- insatiate,
- intemperate,
- limitless,
- mercenary,
- miserly,
- money-hungry,
- money-mad,
- omnivorous,
- overgreedy,
- passionate,
- peckish,
- piggish,
- pinched with hunger,
- polyphagic,
- predacious,
- prodigious,
- quenchless,
- rapacious,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- satiating,
- sating,
- sharp-set,
- slakeless,
- sordid,
- starved,
- starving,
- stuffing,
- surfeiting,
- swinish,
- thirsty,
- unappeasable,
- unappeased,
- uncontrollable,
- uncontrolled,
- unfilled,
- unquenchable,
- unsated,
- unsatisfied,
- unslakeable,
- unslaked,
- venal,
- wolfing,
- wolfish,
- zealous