Voracious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Voracious \Vo*ra"cious\, a. [L. vorax, -acis, fr. vorare to
     devour; akin to Gr. ? meat, food, ? to devour, Skr. gar. Cf.
     {Devour}.]
     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.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  voracious
       adj 1: excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on
              the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to
              voracious governments" [syn: {rapacious}, {ravening}]
       2: devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious
          vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves";
          "voracious sharks" [syn: {edacious}, {esurient}, {rapacious},
           {ravening}, {ravenous}, {wolfish}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  94 Moby Thesaurus words for "voracious":
     Apician, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, ardent, avaricious,
     avid, bolting, bottomless, cormorant, coveting, covetous, cramming,
     crapulent, crapulous, desirous, devoted, devouring, dog-hungry,
     eager, earnest, edacious, empty, enormous, enthusiastic, esurient,
     famished, famishing, fasting, fervent, fervid, glutting,
     gluttonizing, gluttonous, gobbling, gorging, grabby, grasping,
     greedy, gulping, guttling, guzzling, half-famished, half-starved,
     hoggish, hungering, hungry, hyperphagic, insatiable, insatiate,
     intemperate, limitless, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry,
     money-mad, omnivorous, overgreedy, passionate, peckish, piggish,
     pinched with hunger, polyphagic, predacious, prodigious,
     quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, satiating, sating,
     sharp-set, slakeless, sordid, starved, starving, stuffing,
     surfeiting, swinish, thirsty, unappeasable, unappeased,
     uncontrollable, uncontrolled, unfilled, unquenchable, unsated,
     unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, venal, wolfing, wolfish,
     zealous