Thesaurus:voracious

Thesaurus

voracious

English

Adjective

Sense: wanting or devouring great quantities of food

Synonyms

• cormorant (attributively, obsolete)
• edacious
• esurient
• gluttonous
• gutfoundered (archaic)
• hungry as a hog
• insatiable
• lupine
• pantagruelian
• rapacious
• ravening
• ravenous
• voracious

Antonyms

• abstemious
• unvoracious

Hypernyms

• greedy    [⇒ thesaurus]
• hungry    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:greed
• Thesaurus:glutton
• gluttonous

Further reading

• “817a. greed” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “voracious” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.