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ravenous implies excessive hunger and suggests violent or grasping methods of dealing with food or with whatever satisfies an appetite. a nation with a ravenous lust for territorial expansion. rapacious often suggests excessive and utterly selfish acquisitiveness or avarice.
RAVENOUS definition: 1. extremely hungry: 2. wanting something very much or wanting a lot of something: 3. extremely…. Learn more.
Ravenous implies extreme hunger, or a famished condition: ravenous wild beasts. Ravening adds the idea of fierceness and savagery, especially as shown in a violent manner of acquiring food: ravening wolves.
wanting something very much or wanting a lot of something: a ravenous appetite for cash. a stage star who was ravenous for attention. More examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. (Definition of ravenous from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) ravenous | Intermediate English.
Some common synonyms of ravenous are gluttonous, rapacious, and voracious. While all these words mean "excessively greedy," ravenous implies excessive hunger and suggests violent or grasping methods of dealing with food or with whatever satisfies an appetite.
- The meanings of gluttonous and ravenous largely overlap; however, gluttonous applies to one who delights in eating or acquiring things especially b...
- The words rapacious and ravenous are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, rapacious often suggests excessive and utterly selfish acquis...
- The words voracious and ravenous can be used in similar contexts, but voracious applies especially to habitual gorging with food or drink. // teena...
Definition of ravenous adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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A ravenous person feels like they haven't eaten in days and could probably finish off 10 pizzas without help. So ravenous is not a good state to be in when you go grocery shopping.
