Synonyms of the word

esurient

• adj. Very hungry or greedy; ravenous.
• adj. avid.
• n. One who is hungry or greedy.

avid

• adj. enthusiastic; passionate; longing eagerly; eager; greedy.

desirous

• adj. Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; solicitous; eager to obtain; covetous.

devouring

• v. present participle of devour.
• n. The act by which something is devoured.

edacious

• adj. Having an insatiable appetite; voracious, ravenous, piggish.

famished

• v. simple past tense and past participle of famish.
• adj. Extremely hungry.

gluttonous

• adj. Given to excessive eating; prone to overeating.
• adj. Greedy.

greedy

• adj. Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.
• adj. Prone to overeat.
• adj. (regular expressions) Tending to match as much text as possible.
• adj. (computer science, of an algorithm) That tries to find the global optimum by finding the local optimum…

hungry

• adj. Affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food.
• adj. (figuratively) Eager, having an avid desire ('appetite') for something.
• adj. Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.

rapacious

• adj. Voracious; avaricious.
• adj. Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy.
• adj. (of an animal, usually a bird) Subsisting off live prey.

ravening

• adj. Voracious and greedy.
• adj. (archaic) Subject to the voracity of a predator.
• n. (archaic, literary) Predation (of an animal); voracious eating or consumption.
• n. Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.

ravenous

• adj. Very hungry.
• adj. Eager for prey or gratification.

sharp-set

• adj. eager in appetite or desire of gratification; ravenous.

starved

• adj. Approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.
• adj. (colloquial) Extremely hungry.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of starve.

voracious

• adj. Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.
• adj. Having a great appetite for anything (e.g., a voracious reader).

wishful

• adj. (obsolete) Wished-for; desired, wanted.
• adj. Expressing a wish or longing for something.
• adj. Aspiring, or seeking advancement.

wolfish

• adj. Pertaining to wolves.
• adj. Having the characteristics or habits of a wolf.
• adj. Fierce; savage; menacing.