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Learn the meaning, synonyms, and usage of the adjective ravenous, which means very eager or greedy for food, satisfaction, or gratification. See examples, word history, and related phrases of ravenous.
Ravenous means extremely hungry or wanting something very much. Learn how to use this adjective with synonyms, antonyms, and examples from the Cambridge Dictionary and Corpus.
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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.
Ravenous means extremely hungry or wanting something very much. Learn how to use this adjective in different contexts with synonyms, antonyms, and examples from various sources.
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.
Ravenous means having a huge appetite and suggests violent or grasping methods of dealing with food or with whatever satisfies an appetite. Find 35 similar and opposite words, related articles, and examples of ravenous in sentences.
Learn the meaning, pronunciation and usage of the adjective ravenous, which means extremely hungry. See synonyms, word origin and example sentences from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
