Synonyms: edacious, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, esurient, wolfish, voracious
Definition: devouring or craving food in great quantities
Usage: edacious vultures; a rapacious appetite; ravenous as wolves; voracious sharks
Similar words: gluttonous
Definition: given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink
Usage: over-fed women and their gluttonous husbands; a gluttonous debauch; a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure
Synonyms: greedy, esurient, avid, devouring
Definition: (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous
Usage: avid for adventure; an avid ambition to succeed; fierce devouring affection; the esurient eyes of an avid curiosity; greedy for fame
Similar words: desirous, wishful
Definition: having or expressing desire for something
Usage: desirous of high office; desirous of finding a quick solution to the problem
Synonyms: esurient, famished, starved, sharp-set, ravenous
Definition: extremely hungry
Usage: 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
Similar words: hungry
Definition: feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food
Usage: a world full of hungry people