Word Meanings - VORACIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool. Dampier. -- Vo*ra"cious*ly, adv. -- Vo*ra"cious*ness, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VORACIOUS)
- Greed
- Gluttonous
- voracious
- hungry
- desirous
- avaricious
- Insatiable
- Voracious
- unappeasable
- omnivorous
- ravenous
- rapacious greedy
- Rapacious
- Greedy
- predaceous
- grasping
- extortionate
- Ravenous
- gluttonous
- rapacious
Related words: (words related to VORACIOUS)
- GREENLANDER
A native of Greenland. - GREETING
Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent. Write to him . . . gentle adieus and greetings. Shak. Syn. -- Salutation; salute; compliment. - GREENLET
l. One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love ; the warbling greenlet ; the yellow-throated greenlet and others. See Vireo. 2. Any species - GRENADO
See GRENADE - 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. - GREENSAND
A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. Note: Greensand is often called marl, because - GREENFISH
See POLLOCK - GREENOCKITE
Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation. - 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. - GREAT-HEARTED
1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble. - GREAT-GRANDFATHER
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother. - GREENHOUSE
A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather. - GREENWEED
See GREENBROOM - GREASINESS
The quality or state of being greasy, oiliness; unctuousness; grossness. - 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; - GREENHORN
A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving. - GREEN-STALL
A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale. - GREMIAL
Of or pertaining to the lap or bosom. - GRE
See STEP - GREENISH
Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow. -- Green"ish*ness, n. - ARM-GRET
Great as a man's arm. A wreath of gold, arm-gret. Chaucer. - AGGREGATOR
One who aggregates. - SANGRAAL; SANGREAL
See GRAIL - DISAGREEABLENESS
The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness. - INGREAT
To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby. - UNPEDIGREED
Not distinguished by a pedigree. Pollok. - REGREDE
To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit. Todhunter. - AMBERGREASE
See AMBERGRIS - RETROGRESS
Retrogression. H. Spenser. - OVERGREEDY
Excessively greedy. - CONGRESSIVE
Encountering, or coming together. Sir T. Browne. - AYEGREEN
The houseleek . Halliwell.