Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Extremely hungry or characterized by extreme hunger; voracious.
- adjective Predatory or ferocious in predation.
- adjective Eager for gratification or extremely desirous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; devouring with rapacious eagerness: as, a ravenous wolf, lion, or vulture; to be ravenous with hunger.
- Greedily eager for gratification; tending to rapacity or voracity: as, ravenous appetite or desire.
- Synonyms Voracious, etc. See
rapacious .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage.
- adjective Eager for prey or gratification.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Very
hungry . - adjective
Eager forprey orgratification .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective devouring or craving food in great quantities
- adjective extremely hungry
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He’d been hungry himself before, but he’d never understood the term ravenous until he watched her eat.
Deadly Promises Sherrilyn Kenyon 2010
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With bass leaving their beds and ravenous from the rigors of spawning, now's the time to cast out a topwater popper and get ready for some explosive action.
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Or it may be meant of Egypt itself, which had been to Israel a house of bondage and therefore a land of trouble and anguish, and which abounded in ravenous and venomous creatures.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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Well, sir, after all this had relatively changed, after the Western nations had made their marvellous advances in civilization, they were too apt to exhibit to China only their barbaric side -- that is, their ravenous cupidity backed by their insolent strength.
Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various
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While we're obviously going to go through some growing pains for the next few cycles, I'm optimistic that this kind of ravenous fact-checking will result in greater voluntary transparency and less focus on spin and PR.
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While we're obviously going to go through some growing pains for the next few cycles, I'm optimistic that this kind of ravenous fact-checking will result in greater voluntary transparency and less focus on spin and PR.
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The word "ravenous" scarcely indicates their condition!
Over the Rocky Mountains Wandering Will in the Land of the Redskin 1859
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Does anyone want to make the odds that they'll end up eating each other in some kind of ravenous feeding frenzy?
Latest Articles TVNewser 2010
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TAS's website may be familiar with my growing obsession with America's looming disaster due to over-spending, debt and, most importantly, endless entitlement spending currently on auto-pilot, a kind of ravenous beast consuming most of our seed corn now and into the future.
The American Spectator III G. Tracy Mehan 2010
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Not much-maligned "ravenous" White women snatching successful brothers from the fold.
NPR Topics: News 2010
soitoldthatfool commented on the word ravenous
bodies prior to marathon sex
October 16, 2007
yarb commented on the word ravenous
One of only two comments by soitoldthatfool.
October 7, 2008
Kristianto2010 commented on the word ravenous
I am in the midst of lions; I am forced to dwell among ravenous beasts—men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords. Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth. Psalm 57:4~5.
June 13, 2011