Synonyms of the word ravenous


RAVENOUSEDACIOUS - ESURIENT - FAMISHED - GLUTTONOUS - HUNGRY - RAPACIOUS - RAVENING - SHARP-SET - STARVED - VORACIOUS - WOLFISH

ravenous

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

edacious

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

esurient

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

famished

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

gluttonous

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

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.

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).

wolfish

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

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