Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
- adj. Having or marked by an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; greedy: a voracious reader.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.
- adj. Having a great appetite for anything (e.g., a voracious reader).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Greedy in eating; eating food in large quantities; marked by voracity; ravenous: as, a voracious man.
- Rapacious.
- Ready to swallow up: as, a voracious gulf or whirlpool.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. excessively greedy and grasping
- adj. devouring or craving food in great quantities
Etymologies
Examples
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I think it comes from reading, and I was a-- what they call a voracious reader when I was a little boy.
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I was reading quite early and I was voracious from the start.
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The appetite which has been voracious is now satisfied with a normal meal, the carbohydrate of which is utilized, and the patient loses the persistent craving for food.
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Among economists Dr. Krueger is known as a voracious data hound, using surveys and natural experiments to find empirical results.
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'' Humanity, the oceans, cannot continue to sustain Japanese voracious sashimi appetite, ''
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Although Prieto himself was known as a voracious eater, his typical meal-packed day was not unusual in Mexico.
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He was described as a voracious reader who adored classics like "Crime and Punishment" and the Harry Potter series.
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They are brutally voracious, that is to say, ferocious, not after the fashion of the tyrant, but after the fashion of the tiger.
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Her parents were Holocaust survivors; later, they immigrated to the United States and opened a small grocery store on North Capitol Street in D.C. Albert (Bert) Foer is characterized as the voracious reader in the family.
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Native to western North America, the bull trout is widely known as a voracious predator of other fishes.
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