ravenous Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite extremely hungry
    sharp-set; esurient; starved; famished.
    • 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
  2. adjective satellite devouring or craving food in great quantities
    voracious; wolfish; rapacious; esurient; edacious; ravening.
    • edacious vultures
    • a rapacious appetite
    • ravenous as wolves
    • voracious sharks

WordNet

Rav"en*ous adjective
Etymology
From 2d Raven.
Definitions
  1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture.
  2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- Rav"en*ous*ly, adv. -- Rav"en*ous*ness, n.

Webster 1913