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: 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