ravenous 音标拼音: [r'ævənəs]
a . 贪婪的,饿极的,渴望的,狼吞虎咽的
贪婪的,饿极的,渴望的,狼吞虎咽的
ravenous adj 1 :
extremely hungry ; "
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 enemy " [
synonym : {
famished }, {
ravenous }, {
sharp -
set },
{
starved }, {
esurient }]
2 :
devouring or craving food in great quantities ; "
edacious vultures "; "
a rapacious appetite "; "
ravenous as wolves ";
"
voracious sharks " [
synonym : {
edacious }, {
esurient }, {
rapacious },
{
ravening }, {
ravenous }, {
voracious }, {
wolfish }]
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1 .
Devouring with rapacious eagerness ;
furiously voracious ;
hungry even to rage ;
as ,
a ravenous wolf or vulture .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
Eager for prey or gratification ;
as ,
a ravenous appetite or desire .
[
1913 Webster ] -- {
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adv . --
{
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n .
[
1913 Webster ]
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "
ravenous ":
Apician ,
a hog for ,
acquisitive ,
all -
devouring ,
all -
engulfing ,
avaricious ,
avid ,
bloodsucking ,
bolting ,
bottomless ,
coveting ,
covetous ,
cramming ,
crapulent ,
crapulous ,
devouring ,
dog -
hungry ,
edacious ,
empty ,
esurient ,
extortionate ,
famished ,
famishing ,
fasting ,
glutting ,
gluttonizing ,
gluttonous ,
gobbling ,
gorging ,
grabby ,
grasping ,
greedy ,
gulping ,
guttling ,
guzzling ,
half -
famished ,
half -
starved ,
hoggish ,
hungering ,
hungry ,
hyperphagic ,
insatiable ,
insatiate ,
intemperate ,
limitless ,
lupine ,
mercenary ,
miserly ,
money -
hungry ,
money -
mad ,
omnivorous ,
overgreedy ,
parasitic ,
peckish ,
piggish ,
pinched with hunger ,
polyphagic ,
predacious ,
predatory ,
quenchless ,
rapacious ,
raptorial ,
ravening ,
sharkish ,
sharp -
set ,
slakeless ,
sordid ,
starved ,
starving ,
stuffing ,
swinish ,
unappeasable ,
unappeased ,
unfilled ,
unquenchable ,
unsated ,
unsatisfied ,
unslakeable ,
unslaked ,
venal ,
voracious ,
vulturine ,
vulturous ,
wolfing ,
wolfish
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