voracious

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
voracious
    adj 1: excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on
           the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to
           voracious governments" [syn: {rapacious}, {ravening},
           {voracious}]
    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}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Voracious \Vo*ra"cious\, a. [L. vorax, -acis, fr. vorare to
   devour; akin to Gr. ? meat, food, ? to devour, Skr. gar. Cf.
   {Devour}.]
   Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow;
   ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious
   man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool. --Dampier. --
   {Vo*ra"cious*ly}, adv. -- {Vo*ra"cious*ness}, n.
   [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "voracious":
      Apician, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, ardent, avaricious,
      avid, bolting, bottomless, cormorant, coveting, covetous, cramming,
      crapulent, crapulous, desirous, devoted, devouring, dog-hungry,
      eager, earnest, edacious, empty, enormous, enthusiastic, esurient,
      famished, famishing, fasting, fervent, fervid, glutting,
      gluttonizing, gluttonous, gobbling, gorging, grabby, grasping,
      greedy, gulping, guttling, guzzling, half-famished, half-starved,
      hoggish, hungering, hungry, hyperphagic, insatiable, insatiate,
      intemperate, limitless, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry,
      money-mad, omnivorous, overgreedy, passionate, peckish, piggish,
      pinched with hunger, polyphagic, predacious, prodigious,
      quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, satiating, sating,
      sharp-set, slakeless, sordid, starved, starving, stuffing,
      surfeiting, swinish, thirsty, unappeasable, unappeased,
      uncontrollable, uncontrolled, unfilled, unquenchable, unsated,
      unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, venal, wolfing, wolfish,
      zealous

    

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