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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | voracious |
| Synonyms: | devouring, esurient, gluttonous, greedy, hoggish, insatiable, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, unappeasable |
| Main Entry: | greedy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | desiring excessively |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, avid, carnivorous, close, close-fisted, covetous, craving, desirous, devouring, eager, edacious, esurient, gluttonous, gobbling, gormandizing, grabby, grasping, grudging, gulping, guzzling, hoggish, hungry, impatient, insatiable, insatiate, intemperate, itchy, miserly, niggardly, omnivorous, parsimonious, pennypinching, penurious, piggish, prehensile, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, selfish, stingy, swinish, tight*, tight-fisted, voracious |
| Antonyms: | abstemious, benevolent, charitable, extravagant, generous, liberal, philanthropic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hungry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | starving; desirous |
| Synonyms: | athirst, avid, carnivorous, could eat a horse, covetous, craving, eager, edacious, empty, esurient, famished, famishing, flying light, got the munchies, greedy, hankering, hoggish, hollow, hungered, insatiate, keen, omnivorous, on empty stomach, piggish, rapacious, ravenous, starved, unfilled, unsatisfied, voracious, yearning |
| Antonyms: | full, replete, satiated, satisfied, stuffed |
| Main Entry: | ravenous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hungry; desirous |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, could eat a horse, covetous, devouring, edacious, empty, famished, ferocious, gluttonous, grasping, greedy, insatiable, insatiate, omnivorous, predatory, rapacious, ravening, starved, starved to death, starving, voracious, wolfish |
| Antonyms: | full, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | voracious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hungry, greedy |
| Synonyms: | avid, covetous, devouring, dog-hungry, edacious, empty, gluttonous, gorging, grasping, gross, insatiable, omnivorous, piggy, prodigious, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, sating, starved, starved to death, starving, uncontrolled, unquenchable |
| Antonyms: | quenched, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | devouring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eating up |
| Synonyms: | annihilatory, consuming, corrosive, edacious, gluttonous, voracious |
| Main Entry: | grabby |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, avid, carnivorous, close, close-fisted, covetous, craving, desirous, devouring, eager, edacious, esurient, gluttonous, gobbling, gormandizing, grasping, grudging, gulping, guzzling, hoggish, hungry, impatient, insati, insatiable |
| Main Entry: | hoggish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, avid, carnivorous, close, close-fisted, covetous, craving, desirous, devouring, eager, edacious, esurient, gluttonous, gobbling, gormandizing, grabby, grasping, grudging, gulping, guzzling, hungry, impatient, insatiable, insatiat |
| Main Entry: | piggish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, avid, carnivorous, close, close-fisted, covetous, craving, desirous, devouring, eager, edacious, esurient, gluttonous, gobbling, gormandizing, grabby, grasping, grudging, gulping, guzzling, hoggish, hungry, impatient, insatiable, insatiate, intemperate, itchy, miserly, niggardly, omnivorous, parsimonious, pennypinching, penurious, prehensile, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, selfish, stingy, swinish, tight*, tight-fisted, voracious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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