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Voracious

/vɔːˈɹeɪ.ʃəs/

Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.

📖 Definitions of "Voracious"

adjective

8 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
esurientnoun	(formal, now often humorous) Very greedy or hungry; ravenous; (figuratively) avid, eager.
rapacious	(also figurative) Voracious; avaricious.
ravenous	Very hungry.
raveningnoun	Voracious and greedy.
acquisitive	Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring, greedy.
edacious	(literary) Having an insatiable appetite; voracious; ravenous; piggish.
gluttonous	Given to excessive eating; prone to overeating.
wolfish	Suggestive or characteristic of a wolf.

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
edaciousnoun	(literary) Having an insatiable appetite; voracious; ravenous; piggish.
gluttonous	Given to excessive eating; prone to overeating.
rapacious	(also figurative) Voracious; avaricious.
ravening	Voracious and greedy.
ravenous	Very hungry.
esurientnoun	(formal, now often humorous) Very greedy or hungry; ravenous; (figuratively) avid, eager.
wolfish	Suggestive or characteristic of a wolf.
acquisitive	Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring, greedy.
greedy	Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.
avid	Enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something.
insatiable	Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy.
sharp-set	(dated, idiomatic) Eager in appetite or desire of gratification; ravenous.
gluttonnoun	One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer.
overhungry	Excessively hungry.
hoggish	Having a gluttonous appetite.
gorgedverb	With a stomach stuffed full of food.
gluttonish	gluttonous
omnivorous	Having a diet which is neither exclusively carnivorous nor exclusively herbivorous.
hungry	Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
pantagrueliannoun	Huge, gigantic, enormous.