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Ravenous, ravening, voracious suggest a greediness for food and usually intense hunger. 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.
Definition of ravenous. as in greedy. having a huge appetite we were ravenous after our canoe paddling, and the chili bubbling over the campfire smelled heavenly. Synonyms & Similar Words. Relevance. greedy. hungry. voracious. starving. gluttonous. starved. rapacious. piggish. hoggish. swinish. edacious. esurient. insatiable. wolfish. devouring.
Definitions of ravenous. adjective. extremely hungry. “a ravenous boy” synonyms: esurient, famished, sharp-set, starved. hungry. feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food. adjective. devouring or craving food in great quantities. “ ravenous as wolves” synonyms: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, voracious, wolfish. gluttonous.
He has a ravenous appetite. Definition of ravenous adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and 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.
RAVENOUS definition: very hungry. Learn more.
