RAVENOUS: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for RAVENOUS?

Need another word that means the same as “ravenous”? Find 12 synonyms and 30 related words for “ravenous” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Ravenous” are: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, voracious, wolfish, famished, sharp-set, starved, very hungry, starving, insatiable

Ravenous as an Adjective

Definitions of "Ravenous" as an adjective

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “ravenous” as an adjective can have the following definitions:

• (of hunger or need) very great; voracious.
• Devouring or craving food in great quantities.
• Extremely hungry.

Synonyms of "Ravenous" as an adjective (12 Words)

edacious	Relating to or given to eating. Edacious vultures.
esurient	(often followed by `for’) ardently or excessively desirous. Fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy.
famished	Extremely hungry. They were tired and famished for food and sleep.
insatiable	Of a person having an insatiable appetite or desire for something especially sex. An insatiable hunger for success.
rapacious	Aggressively greedy or grasping. Rapacious landlords.
ravening	Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey. Ravening creditors.
sharp-set	Extremely hungry.
starved	Suffering from lack of food. The family was starved and ragged.
starving	Suffering or dying from hunger. The world s starving children.
very hungry	Being the exact same one; not any other.
voracious	Wanting or devouring great quantities of food. She s a voracious reader.
wolfish	Resembling or likened to a wolf, especially in being rapacious, voracious, or lascivious. Wolfish rapacity.

Usage Examples of "Ravenous" as an adjective

• Ravenous as wolves.
• A ravenous boy.
• I'd been out all day and was ravenous.
• A ravenous appetite.

Associations of "Ravenous" (30 Words)

addle	Make (someone) unable to think clearly; confuse. Addled eggs.
appetite	A feeling of craving something- Granville Hicks. Her appetite for life.
champ	Chafe at the bit, like horses. He was already on the plane champing to get off to Lagos.
chomp	The act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws. The boy chomped his sandwich.
craving	An intense desire for some particular thing. A craving for chocolate.
eat	Eat a meal take a meal. If we had to we could probably eat the cost.
epicurean	Of Epicurus or epicureanism. Epicurean pleasures.
famish	Be extremely hungry. Many famished in the countryside during the drought.
famished	Extremely hungry. The evacuees were famished having had no food for 12 hours.
glutton	A person who is excessively fond of something. He s a glutton for adventure.
gluttonous	Given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink. Over fed women and their gluttonous husbands.
gourmand	A person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess.
greedy	Having an excessive desire or appetite for food. Greedy for money and power.
hedonistic	Engaged in the pursuit of pleasure; sensually self-indulgent. Lives of unending hedonistic delight.
hunger	Feel or suffer hunger. Hunger for affection.
hungry	Causing hunger. I always find art galleries hungry work.
insatiable	Of a person having an insatiable appetite or desire for something especially sex. So insatiable a gourmand as myself.
lupine	Of or relating to or characteristic of wolves.
porcine	Repellently fat. The piggy fat cheeked little boy and his porcine pot bellied father.
rapacious	Aggressively greedy or grasping. The rapacious wolf.
raptorial	Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey. Raptorial birds.
ravening	(of a ferocious wild animal) extremely hungry and hunting for prey. Ravening creditors.
repletion	Eating until excessively full.
satiety	The state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more. A molecule that seems to regulate satiety.
starve	Suffer or die or cause to suffer or die from hunger. The Royalists were starved out after eleven days.
starving	The act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine. The world s starving children.
tantalize	Torment or tease (someone) with the sight or promise of something that is unobtainable. She still tantalized him.
thirst	Strong sexual desire or arousal. A thirst for knowledge.
unquenchable	Not able to be quenched. Unquenchable thirst.
voracious	Excessively greedy and grasping. Paying taxes to voracious governments.