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| Main Entry: | ravenous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hungry; desirous |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, covetous, devouring, empty, famished, ferocious, gluttonous, grasping, greedy, insatiable, omnivorous, predatory, rapacious, starved, starving, voracious, could eat a horse, edacious, insatiate, ravening, starved to death, wolfish |
| Antonyms: | full, satisfied |
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| Main Entry: | avid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | ardent, avaricious, breathless, covetous, desirous, devoted, eager, fanatical, fervent, grasping, greedy, hungry, impatient, insatiable, intense, keen, passionate, rapacious, ravenous, thirsty, voracious, zealous, athirst, dying to, gotta have |
| Antonyms: | dispassionate, indifferent, unenthusiastic |
| Main Entry: | covetous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy; very desirous |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, avid, eager, envious, gluttonous, grasping, green-eyed*, itchy*, jealous, keen, mercenary, rapacious, ravenous, selfish, voracious, yearning, close-fisted, ensurient, grabby, grudging, hogging, piggish, prehensile, swinish |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, generous, giving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | famished |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | starving |
| Synonyms: | empty, hollow, hungry, ravenous, starved, voracious, could eat a horse, dog-hungry, flying light, having the munchies, hungering, ravening, starved to death |
| Antonyms: | full, satisfied, sated, satiated |
| Main Entry: | ferocious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | violent, barbaric |
| Synonyms: | barbarous, bloodthirsty, brutal, cruel, fell, feral, fierce, frightful, grim, implacable, inhuman, lupine, merciless, murderous, pitiless, predatory, rapacious, ravenous, relentless, ruthless, savage, truculent, unmerciful, unrestrained, untamed, vehement, vicious, voracious, wild, brutish, inhumane, ravening, sanguinary, tigerish, wolfish |
| Antonyms: | gentle, innocent, kind, mild, nonviolent, tame, tender |
| Main Entry: | gluttonous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | voracious |
| Synonyms: | covetous, devouring, greedy, gross, insatiable, omnivorous, prodigious, rapacious, ravenous, starved, starving, edacious, gorging, gourmandizing, hoggish, never full, piggish, piggy, ravening, sating, unquenchable, wolfish |
| 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: | insatiable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | voracious, wanting |
| Synonyms: | clamorous, crying, demanding, desiring, exigent, gluttonous, greedy, importunate, insistent, intemperate, pressing, rapacious, ravenous, unsatisfied, urgent, yearning, insatiate, quenchless, unappeasable, unquenchable, unsatisfiable |
| Antonyms: | fulfilled, full, pleased, satisfied, satiable |
| Main Entry: | longing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | desirous |
| Synonyms: | anxious, ardent, avid, craving, eager, hungry, languishing, ravenous, wishful, wistful, yearning, pining |
| Antonyms: | loathing, despising, hating |
| Main Entry: | rapacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | plundering |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, ferocious, furious, greedy, murderous, predatory, preying, ravenous, savage, voracious, marauding, ravening |
| Main Entry: | starving/starved |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deprived of food |
| Synonyms: | craving, drawn, dying, emaciated, empty, faint, famished, haggard, hungry, peaked, ravenous, skinny, thin, underfed, weakened, could eat a horse, dehydrated, hungering, malnourished, peckish, perishing, pinched, undernourished |
| Antonyms: | full, satisfied, fed |
| Main Entry: | voracious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hungry, greedy |
| Synonyms: | avid, covetous, devouring, empty, gluttonous, grasping, gross, insatiable, omnivorous, prodigious, rapacious, ravenous, starved, starving, uncontrolled, dog-hungry, edacious, gorging, piggy, ravening, sating, starved to death, unquenchable |
| Antonyms: | satisfied, quenched |
| Main Entry: | starving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deprived |
| Synonyms: | craving, drawn, dying, emaciated, empty, faint, famished, haggard, hungry, peaked, ravenous, skinny, starved, thin, underfed, weakened, dehydrated, dog-hungry, flying light, have munchies, hungering, malnourished, peaky, peckish, perishing, pinched, rattleboned, undernourished |
| Antonyms: | full, satiated |
| Main Entry: | omnivorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rapacious |
| Synonyms: | gluttonous, greedy, predatory, ravenous, voracious |
| Main Entry: | empty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hungry |
| Synonyms: | famished, ravenous, starving, unfilled, unfed |
| Antonyms: | filled, full, satisfied, sated |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | desire |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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agog, all agog, ambitious, anadipsic, anxious, appetent, appetizable, appetizing, ardent, aspiring, at a loss for, athirst, avid, belly, bent upon, breathless, bulimic, burning, concubitant, covetous, craving, curious, desirable, desired, desiring, desirous, devoured by desire, drouthy, dry, dying for, eager, enviable, envious, esurient, exacting, exoptable, extortionate, fain, famished, fervent, gair, grasping, greedy, greedy as a hog, hungry, hungry as a churchmouse, hungry as a hawk, hungry as a horse, hungry as a hunter, impatient, in demand, inclined, ingordigious, insatiable, intent on, intent upon, keen, lickerish, mad after, meatwhole, open, orectic, overeager, parched with thirst, partial to, peckish, phagomanic, pinched with hunger, pleasing, quenchless, rabid, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, ravenous as a wolf, salacious, sarcophilous, sedulous, set on, set upon, sharp, sitient, sky, sordid, tantalizing, thirsty, tibialoconcupiscent, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslaked, vaulting, venerean, voracious, wishful, wistful, with an empty stomach, yiver
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| Main Entry: | taking |
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