Word Meanings - RAVENOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. 2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- Rav"en*ous*ly, adv. -- Rav"en*ous*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RAVENOUS)

• Insatiable
• Voracious
• unappeasable
• omnivorous
• ravenous
• rapacious greedy
• Predaceous
• Ravenous
• rapacious
• carnivorous
• Rapacious
• Greedy
• voracious
• predaceous
• avaricious
• grasping
• extortionate
• Hungry
• absorbent
• insatiate
• gormandizing

Related words: (words related to RAVENOUS)

• CARNIVOROUS
  Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
• RAVENOUS
  1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. 2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- Rav"en*ous*ly, adv. -- Rav"en*ous*ness, n.
• HUNGRY
  1. Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire. 2. Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious. The cruel, hungry foam. C. Kingsley. Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
• GORMANDIZE
  To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton. Shak.
• GRASP
  1. To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of. Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff. Shak. 2. To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with;
• INSATIABLENESS
  Greediness of appetite that can not be satisfied or appeased; insatiability. The eye of the covetous hath a more particular insatiableness. Bp. Hall.
• GREEDY-GUT
  A glutton. Todd.
• PREDACEOUS
  Living by prey; predatory. Derham.
• AVARICIOUS
  Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property. Syn. -- Greedy; stingy; rapacious; griping; sordid; close. -- Avaricious, Covetous, Parsimonious, Penurious, Miserly, Niggardly. The avaricious eagerly grasp after
• RAPACIOUS
  1. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. " The downfall of the rapacious and licentious Knights Templar." Motley. 2. Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence,; as, a
• GRASPER
  One who grasps or seizes; one who catches or holds.
• INSATIABLE
  Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire. "Insatiable of glory." Milton.
• GORMANDIZER
  A greedy, voracious eater; a gormand; a glutton.
• OMNIVOROUS
  All-devouring; eating everything indiscriminately; as, omnivorous vanity; esp. , eating both animal and vegetable food. -- Om*niv"o*rous*ness, n.
• ABSORBENT
  Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive. Absorbent ground , a ground prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.
• INSATIATE
  Insatiable; as, insatiate thirst. The insatiate greediness of his desires. Shak. And still insatiate, thirsting still for blood. Hook.
• INSATIATELY
  Insatiably. Sir T. Herbert.
• GRASPING
  1. Seizing; embracing; catching. 2. Avaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man. -- Grasp"ing*ly, adv. -- Grasp"ing*ness, n.
• GRASPLESS
  Without a grasp; relaxed. From my graspless hand Drop friendship's precious pearls. Coleridge.
• GRASPABLE
  Capable of being grasped.
• OVERGREEDY
  Excessively greedy.