ravenous

Speech parts

1. ravenous - Adjective

2. ravenous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture.

Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

starved starving voracious famished rapacious ravening edacious wolfish esurient sharp-set piggy cormorant empty fierce hollow
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Antonyms

blase full near content cold considerable
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Phrases with the word

ravenous spider

Examples

The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous. John Climacus

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. Jean-Paul Sartre

Dazed and disoriented, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm - into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires. Stephenie Meyer

It wouldn't be my move," Jace agreed. "First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order. Cassandra Clare

She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous. Ann Brashares

You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live. Ray Bradbury

Close letter words and terms

Ravennate Ravennese ravenness ravenous hunger ravenous spider ravenously