Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Extremely hungry; voracious.
- adj. Rapacious; predatory.
- adj. Greedy for gratification: ravenous for power. See Synonyms at voracious.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
Wiktionary
- adj. Very hungry.
- adj. this sense?) Eager for prey or gratification.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage.
- adj. Eager for prey or gratification.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. devouring or craving food in great quantities
- adj. extremely hungry
Etymologies
- From Old French ravineus. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French ravineux, from raviner, to take by force, from Vulgar Latin *rapīnāre, from Latin rapīna, plunder; see rapine. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“He’d been hungry himself before, but he’d never understood the term ravenous until he watched her eat.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The word "ravenous" scarcely indicates their condition!”
Over the Rocky Mountains Wandering Will in the Land of the Redskin
“Does anyone want to make the odds that they'll end up eating each other in some kind of ravenous feeding frenzy?”
“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.”
“Not much-maligned "ravenous" White women snatching successful brothers from the fold.”
“Furred Law-cats, that are a kind of ravenous devils; thus we shall remove all manner of tyranny out of the land.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ravenous’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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macabre
words associated with the macabre & horror.
( open list, randomness )
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aujourdui's list
totally fantabulous words
wombat, spiffing, gnarly, splendiferous, yoda, rockocity, shmexy, rebrella, coolio, liger, ravenous, crudsicles and 12 more...
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Darker Connotations
Deep, deep, dark
penchant, ravenous, rend, rupture, simper, leer, obsession, malady, erratic, asylum, turgid
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1824 more...
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I am : hungry
Words (adjectives and verbs) for physical hunger, thirst - and the fulfillment of.
hungry, thirsty, famished, starved, ravenous, satiated, sated, full, bloated, parched, gorge, voracious and 2 more...
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Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
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beatricks's Words
tremendous, naiad, thrush, samsara, thronging, nascent, broom, aristeia, streak, susurrant, reverberate, resistentialism and 352 more...
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Aequoria's list
affect, deleterious, nuance, pliant, verbatim, pertinent, latter, municipality, provincial, voyeuristic, circumlocution, wane and 798 more...
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Revised GRE Wordlist_2013
Vocabulary building for my quest of GRE 2013
ephemeral, esoteric, rhetoric, censure, egregious, pittance, dupe, mulct, paucity, alacrity, maintain, laconic and 996 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL R
rabid, raconteur, rail, rambunctious, ramification, rampant, rancor, rancorous, range, rankle, ransack, rapacious and 112 more...
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A Myriad of Irii
Iris varieties.
abbondanza, abiqua falls, about town, above the clouds, acadian miss, acapulco gold, act of kindness, adoregon, aegean wind, afternoon in rio, aggressively forward, agua fresca and 721 more...
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NakedFringe's Words
masticate, chamber, orchid, mandolin, yellow, pomegranate, conundrum, paradox, gyrate, calamitous, opalescent, cacophony and 533 more...
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GRE 3500 Q
quadruped, quaff, quaint, quandary, quarry, quay, queasy, quell, querulous, quibble, quietude, quip and 89 more...
Tweets
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Kristianto2010 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.
Jun 12, 2011
yarb One of only two comments by soitoldthatfool. Oct 7, 2008
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