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Ravenous

  1. adjective

    devouring or craving food in great quantities

    “edacious vultures”

    Similar: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, voracious, wolfish

  2. adjective

    extremely hungry

    “they were tired and famished for food and sleep”

    Similar: famished, starved, esurient

Word family

ravenousness · ravenously

Words that mean the same

Greedy

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Word parts

-ous