ravenous

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: rav=en=ous
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

ravenous, a. [From 2d Raven.].

•  Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture.  [1913 Webster]
•  Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ravenous, adj.
1 very hungry, famished.
2 (of hunger, eagerness, etc., or of an animal) voracious.
3 rapacious.

Derivative

ravenously adv. ravenousness n.

Etymology

ME f. OF ravineus (as RAVEN(2))

THESAURUS

ravenous

Apician, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, all-engulfing, avaricious, avid, bloodsucking, bolting, bottomless, coveting, covetous, cramming, crapulent, crapulous, devouring, dog-hungry, edacious, empty, esurient, extortionate, famished, famishing, fasting, glutting, gluttonizing, gluttonous, gobbling, gorging, grabby, grasping, greedy, gulping, guttling, guzzling, half-famished, half-starved, hoggish, hungering, hungry, hyperphagic, insatiable, insatiate, intemperate, limitless, lupine, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, omnivorous, overgreedy, parasitic, peckish, piggish, pinched with hunger, polyphagic, predacious, predatory, quenchless, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, sharkish, sharp-set, slakeless, sordid, starved, starving, stuffing, swinish, unappeasable, unappeased, unfilled, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, venal, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfing, wolfish

ROGET THESAURUS

ravenous

Taking

N taking, reception, deglutition, appropriation, prehension, prensation, capture, caption, apprehension, deprehension, abreption, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation, subtraction, withdrawal, abstraction, ademption, adrolepsy, dispossession, deprivation, deprivement, bereavement, divestment, disherison, distraint, distress, sequestration, confiscation, eviction, rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism, theft, resumption, reprise, reprisal, recovery, clutch, swoop, wrench, grip, haul, take, catch, scramble, taker, captor, subduction, taking, privative, prehensile, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, lupine, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, parasitic, bereft, at one fell swoop, give an inch and take an ell.

Greed

N greed, covetousness, ravenousness, venality, avidity, cupidity, acquisitiveness (acquisition), desire, greed, greediness, avarice, avidity, rapacity, extortion, selfishness, auri sacra fames, grasping, craving, canine appetite, rapacity, greedy, avaricious, covetous, acquisitive, grasping, rapacious, lickerish, greedy as a hog, overeager, voracious, ravenous, ravenous as a wolf, openmouthed, extortionate, exacting, sordid, alieni appetens, insatiable, insatiate, unquenchable, quenchless, omnivorous.