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| Main Entry: | carnivorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eating animal flesh |
| Synonyms: | cannibal, hungry, omnivorous, predatory, rapacious, flesh-eating |
| Antonyms: | vegetarian |
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| Main Entry: | greedy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | desiring excessively |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, avid, carnivorous, close, covetous, craving, desirous, devouring, eager, gluttonous, grasping, hungry, impatient, insatiable, intemperate, itchy*, miserly, omnivorous, parsimonious, penurious, rapacious, ravenous, selfish, stingy, tight*, voracious, close-fisted, edacious, esurient, gobbling, gormandizing, grabby, grudging, gulping, guzzling, hoggish, insatiate, niggardly, pennypinching, piggish, prehensile, ravening, swinish, tight-fisted |
| Antonyms: | abstemious, benevolent, charitable, extravagant, generous, liberal, philanthropic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hungry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | starving; desirous |
| Synonyms: | avid, carnivorous, covetous, craving, eager, empty, famished, greedy, hankering, hollow, keen, omnivorous, rapacious, ravenous, starved, unfilled, unsatisfied, voracious, yearning, athirst, could eat a horse, edacious, esurient, famishing, flying light, got the munchies, hoggish, hungered, insatiate, on empty stomach, piggish |
| Antonyms: | full, replete, satisfied, stuffed, satiated |
| Main Entry: | predatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eating, destroying for sustenance or without conscience |
| Synonyms: | bloodthirsty, carnivorous, greedy, hungry, hunting, preying, rapacious, thieving, voracious, depredatory, despoiling, marauding, pillaging, plundering, predacious, predative, raptorial, ravaging, ravening, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish |
| Main Entry: | man-eating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cannibal |
| Synonyms: | carnivorous, ferocious, murderous, creophagous |
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| Main Entry: | nourishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
adipsous, alible, alimentary, alimonious, amophagous, amphivorous, androphagous, anthophilous, anthropophagous, apivorous, arachnivorous, baccivorous, batrachivorous, bibulous, biophagous, cannibalistic, carnivorous, cepivorous, coenaculous, comestible, coprophagous, creophagous, dietetic, dipsetic, eatable, edacious, edible, entomophagous, equivorous, esculent, euryphagous, eutrophic, foisoned, frugivorous, fucivorous, galactophagous, geophagous, graminivorous, granivorous, hematophagous, herbivorous, hippophagous, hylophagous, ichthyophagous, ichthyophagus, insectivorous, lactivorous, lacto, limivorous, lithophagus, lotophagous, mellivorous, merdivorous, monophagous, myrmecophagous, necrophagous, nucivorous, nutritious, nutritive, oligophagous, omnivorous, oophagous, ophiophagous, oryzivorous, ossivorous, ovivorous, panivorous, phthirophagous, phyllophagous, phyticorous, phytivorous, phytophagous, piscivorous, pleophagous, poculent, poltophagic, polyphagous, porcipophagic, potable, potulent, predaceous, ranivorous, sanguinivorous, saprophagous, sarcophagic, scatophagous, scolecophagous, seminivorous, subruminative, trophic, vegan, vegetarian, xerophagous, xylophagous
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