voracious
Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.
Adjective
- Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.
- He is voracious by suppertime.
- His appetite is voracious by suppertime.
- I never had so much as […] one wish to God to direct me whither I should go, or to keep me from the danger which apparently surrounded me, as well from voracious creatures as cruel savages. - 1719 May 6 (Gregorian...
- Having a great appetite for anything; eager.
- a voracious reader
- If he carried chiefly his appetite, a zeal for tiled bathrooms, a conviction that the Pullman car is the acme of human comfort, and a belief that it is proper to tip waiters, taxicab drivers, and barbers, but under no...
- Methodical and voracious, these hackers wanted all the files they could find. - 2005 August 29, Nathan Thornburgh, “The Invasion of the Chinese Cyberspies”, in Time:
Origin
From Latin vorāx, from vorō (“to devour”).
Forms
Synonyms
eager cormorant edacious esurient gluttonous gutfoundered hungry as a hog insatiable lupine pantagruelian rapacious ravening ravenous voracious