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Ravenous is commonly used with the meaning “very eager or greedy for food, satisfaction, or gratification,” and ravishing means “unusually attractive, pleasing, or striking.”
Synonyms for RAVENOUS: greedy, hungry, voracious, starving, gluttonous, starved, rapacious, piggish; Antonyms of RAVENOUS: satisfied, full, content, stuffed, sated, satiated, glutted.
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 | American Dictionary.
RAVENOUS meaning: 1. extremely hungry: 2. wanting something very much or wanting a lot of something: 3. extremely…. Learn more.
: very hungry. By the time dinner was ready, we were ravenous. a ravenous wolf. After hiking all day, I had a ravenous appetite. [=I was extremely hungry] — sometimes used figuratively. She was ravenous for public attention. — ravenously. adverb. I felt ravenously hungry. The birds were feeding ravenously after their long flight.
Mar 19, 1999 · Ravenous: Directed by Antonia Bird. With Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, David Arquette, Jeremy Davies. In a remote military outpost in the 19th century, Captain John Boyd and his regiment embark on a rescue mission which takes a dark turn when they are ambushed by a sadistic cannibal.
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.
Definition of ravenous adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
RAVENOUS definition: very hungry. Learn more.
