What does ravenous mean in English? Meaning of ravenous definition and abbreviation with examples.
Meaning of "ravenous": extremely hungry
Adjective
Meaning: extremely hungryExample: they were tired and famished for food and sleep
a ravenous boy
the family was starved and ragged
fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemySynonyms: esurient
famished
ravenous
sharp-set
starvedSimilar: hungryMeaning of "ravenous": devouring or craving food in great quantities
Adjective
Meaning: devouring or craving food in great quantitiesExample: edacious vultures
a rapacious appetite
ravenous as wolves
voracious sharksSynonyms: edacious
esurient
rapacious
ravening
ravenous
voracious
wolfishSimilar: gluttonousAdjective: Very hungry. 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, A Cuckoo in the Nest: The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, A Cuckoo in the Nest: The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.(Can we clean up(+) this sense?) Eager for prey or gratification. 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. IX, Working Aristocracy Supply-and-demand? One begins to be weary of such work. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause: — it is the Gospel of Despair!1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. IX, Working Aristocracy Supply-and-demand? One begins to be weary of such work. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause: — it is the Gospel of Despair!Synonyms:
voracious, rapacious, insatiable, ferocious, greedy, avaricious, covetous, devouring, empty, famished, gluttonous, grasping, omnivorous, predatory, starved, starving, edacious, could eat a horse, insatiate, ravening, starved to death, wolfish,
Antonyms:
satisfied, full,
