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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. RAVENOUS meaning: 1. extremely hungry: 2. wanting something very much or wanting a lot of something: 3. extremely…. Learn more.

  6. Synonyms for RAVENOUS: greedy, hungry, voracious, starving, gluttonous, starved, rapacious, piggish; Antonyms of RAVENOUS: satisfied, full, content, stuffed, sated, satiated, glutted.

  7. 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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