Voracious

/vɔːˈɹeɪ.ʃəs/

Synonyms for "voracious" (133 found)

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Closest matches (27)

Adjective(5 words)

a hog foracquisitive all-devouring apician ardent avaricious avid bolting bottomless cormorant coveting covetous cramming crapulent crapulous desirous devoted devouring dog-hungry eager

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earnest

Adjective(1 words)

cormorant

Strong matches (40)

edacious empty enormous enthusiastic esurient famished famishing fasting ferocious fervent fervid glutting gluttonizing gluttonous gobbling gorging grabby grasping greedy gulping

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guttling guzzling half-famished half-starved hoggish hungering hungry

Adjective(4 words)

edacious esurient gluttonous gutfoundered

Adjective(8 words)

edacious enthusiastic esurient gluttonous greedier greedygreedy approachgreedy search

Verb(1 words)

guzzled

Related words (66)

Adjective(7 words)

hungry as a hoginsatiable lupine pantagruelian rapacious ravening ravenous

hyperphagic insatiable insatiate intemperate limitless mercenary miserlymoney hungrymoney madmoney-hungry money-mad omnivorous overgreedy passionate peckish piggishpinched with hungerpolyphagic predacious predatory

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Adjective(7 words)

insatiable intense lustful rapacious ravening unsatiable wolfish

Noun(1 words)

slavering

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6 relation types

More general

5 entries

appetite curiosity demand greed intensity

More specific

6 entries

voracious competitorvoracious consumervoracious eatervoracious marketvoracious readervoracious researcher

Collocations

5 entries

voracious appetitevoracious consumervoracious curiosityvoracious eatervoracious reader

Inflections

2 entries

more voraciousmost voracious

Derivations

3 entries

voraciously voraciousness voracity

similar

2 entries

acquisitive gluttonous

Sample sentences

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The voracious monsters endeavoured to upset the boat; they swam by its side in seeming anxiety for their prey; but after waiting for some time, they separated - the two rescued seamen found themselves free from their insatiable enemies and, by the blessings of God, saved.

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They're intelligent and voracious.

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She's a voracious reader.

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After skiing, I find that I have a voracious appetite.

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