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