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The synonyms of “Ravenous” are: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, voracious, wolfish, famished, sharp-set, starved, very hungry, starving, insatiable
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “ravenous” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| 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. |
| 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. |
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