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rav⋅en⋅ous
[rav-uh-nuh
s] 
–adjective
| 1. | extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work. |
| 2. | extremely rapacious: a ravenous jungle beast. |
| 3. | intensely eager for gratification or satisfaction. |
Related forms:
rav⋅en⋅ous⋅ly, adverb
rav⋅en⋅ous⋅ness, noun
Synonyms:
1. greedy, starved, devouring. Ravenous, ravening, voracious suggest a greediness for food and usually intense hunger. Ravenous implies extreme hunger, or a famished condition: ravenous wild beasts. Ravening adds the idea of fierceness and savagery, esp. as shown in a violent manner of acquiring food: ravening wolves. Voracious implies craving or eating a great deal of food: a voracious child; a voracious appetite. It may also be used figuratively: a voracious reader. 2. predatory.
1. greedy, starved, devouring. Ravenous, ravening, voracious suggest a greediness for food and usually intense hunger. Ravenous implies extreme hunger, or a famished condition: ravenous wild beasts. Ravening adds the idea of fierceness and savagery, esp. as shown in a violent manner of acquiring food: ravening wolves. Voracious implies craving or eating a great deal of food: a voracious child; a voracious appetite. It may also be used figuratively: a voracious reader. 2. predatory.
Antonyms:
1. sated.
1. sated.
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| rav·en·ous (rāv'ə-nəs) adj.
[Middle English, from Old French ravineux, from raviner, to take by force, from Vulgar Latin *rapīnāre, from Latin rapīna, plunder; see rapine.] rav'en·ous·ly adv., rav'en·ous·ness n. |
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Ravenous
Rav"en*ous\, a. [From 2d Raven.]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.
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Language Translation for : ravenous
Spanish:
voraz, famélico,
German:
heißhungrig,
Japanese:
がつがつした
ravenous
1412, "obsessed with plundering, extremely greedy," from O.Fr. ravinos "rapacious, violent," from raviner "to seize," from ravine "violent rush, robbery" (see ravine). Meaning "voracious, very hungry" is from c.1430.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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