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: rapacious, ravening, voracious
Definition: excessively greedy and grasping
Usage: a rapacious divorcee on the prowl; ravening creditors; paying taxes to voracious governments
Similar words: acquisitive
Definition: eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas
Usage: an acquisitive mind; an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied
Synonyms: vulturine, vulturous, predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening
Definition: living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
Usage: a predatory bird; the rapacious wolf; raptorial birds; ravening wolves; a vulturine taste for offal
Similar words: aggressive
Definition: having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends
Usage: an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious; positive in his convictions; aggressive drivers