voracious

adj.

1. Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
2. Having or marked by an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; greedy: a voracious reader.

[From Latin vorāx, vorāc-, from vorāre, to swallow, devour.]

voraciously vo·ra'cious·ly adv.
voracity vo·rac'i·ty (-răs'ĭ-tē) or vo·ra'cious·ness (-rā'shəs-nĭs) n.

SYNONYMS   voracious, gluttonous, rapacious, ravenous. These adjectives mean having or marked by boundless greed: a voracious reader of history; a gluttonous consumer of fine foods; a rapacious acquirer of competing businesses; a politician ravenous for power.

adjective

1. Wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume: edacious, gluttonous, greedy, hoggish, piggish, ravenous. See desire, ingestion.
2. Desiring or craving food: famished, hungry, ravenous, starving. See ingestion.
3. Having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit: avid, edacious, gluttonous, greedy, omnivorous, rapacious, ravenous, unappeasable. See desire.

adj

Definition: very hungry, greedy
Antonyms: quenched, satisfied

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Said of appetite. See polyphagia.

IN BRIEF: Eating with greediness or in very large quantities. Also: Very eager.

The children had voracious appetites after their long hike.

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - glubende, grådig

Nederlands (Dutch)
vraatzuchtig, gulzig

Français (French)
adj. - vorace

Deutsch (German)
adj. - gefräßig, unersättlich

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - αδηφάγος, αχόρταγος

Italiano (Italian)
vorace

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - voraz

Русский (Russian)
прожорливый, ненасытный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - voraz, ávido

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - glupsk, glupande

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
狼吞虎咽的, 贪婪的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 狼吞虎咽的, 貪婪的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 걸신들린, 대식하는, 몹시 집착하는

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 食欲の盛んな, 貪欲な

idioms:

• voracious appetite    ものすごい食欲

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) نهم, شره‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮רעבתני, זולל‬

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