ravenous

ravenous
    adj 1: extremely hungry; "they were tired and famished for food
           and sleep"; "a ravenous boy"; "the family was starved and
           ragged"; "fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory
           enemy" [syn: {famished}, {ravenous}, {sharp-set},
           {starved}, {esurient}]
    2: devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious
       vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves";
       "voracious sharks" [syn: {edacious}, {esurient}, {rapacious},
       {ravening}, {ravenous}, {voracious}, {wolfish}]
    

Ravenous \Rav"en*ous\ (r[a^]v"'n*[u^]s), a. [From 2d {Raven}.]
   1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious;
      hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite
      or desire.
      [1913 Webster] -- {Rav"en*ous*ly}, adv. --
      {Rav"en*ous*ness}, n.
      [1913 Webster]
    

85 Moby Thesaurus words for "ravenous":
      Apician, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, all-engulfing,
      avaricious, avid, bloodsucking, bolting, bottomless, coveting,
      covetous, cramming, crapulent, crapulous, devouring, dog-hungry,
      edacious, empty, esurient, extortionate, famished, famishing,
      fasting, glutting, gluttonizing, gluttonous, gobbling, gorging,
      grabby, grasping, greedy, gulping, guttling, guzzling,
      half-famished, half-starved, hoggish, hungering, hungry,
      hyperphagic, insatiable, insatiate, intemperate, limitless, lupine,
      mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, omnivorous,
      overgreedy, parasitic, peckish, piggish, pinched with hunger,
      polyphagic, predacious, predatory, quenchless, rapacious,
      raptorial, ravening, sharkish, sharp-set, slakeless, sordid,
      starved, starving, stuffing, swinish, unappeasable, unappeased,
      unfilled, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable,
      unslaked, venal, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfing,
      wolfish