English

Adjective

ravenous ‎(comparative more ravenous, superlative most ravenous)

1. Very hungry.
   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:

     The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.

2. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Eager for prey or gratification.
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. IX, Working Aristocracy

     Supply-and-demand? One begins to be weary of such work. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause: — it is the Gospel of Despair!

Synonyms

• starving (colloquial, figuratively)
• See also Wikisaurus:voracious

Translations

See also

• voracious