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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | covetous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy; very desirous |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, avid, close-fisted, eager, ensurient, envious, gluttonous, grabby, grasping, green-eyed, grudging, hogging, itchy, jealous, keen, mercenary, piggish, prehensile, rapacious, ravenous, selfish, swinish, voracious, yearning |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, generous, giving |
| Main Entry: | dog-eat-dog |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | viciously competitive |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, brutal, competitive, cutthroat, every person for themselves, fierce, merciless, ruthless, unmerciful, vicious, voracious, without mercy |
| Main Entry: | eager |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | anxious, enthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, agog, ambitious, antsy, appetent, ardent, athirst, avid, breathless, champing at the bit, covetous, craving, desiring, desirous, dying to, earnest, fervent, fervid, greedy, gung ho, hankering, heated, hot to trot, hot*, hungry*, impatient, intent, keen, longing, pining, rarin' to go, ready and willing, restive, restless, self-starting, solicitous, thirsty, vehement, voracious, warmblooded, wild, wishful, yearning, zealous |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, disinterested, dispassionate, unconcerned, uneager, unenthusiastic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | famished |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | starving |
| Synonyms: | could eat a horse, dog-hungry, empty, flying light, having the munchies, hollow, hungering, hungry, ravening, ravenous, starved, starved to death, voracious |
| Antonyms: | full, sated, satiated, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | ferocious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | violent, barbaric |
| Synonyms: | barbarous, bloodthirsty, brutal, brutish, cruel, fell, feral, fierce, frightful, grim, implacable, inhuman, inhumane, lupine, merciless, murderous, pitiless, predatory, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, relentless, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, tigerish, truculent, unmerciful, unrestrained, untamed, vehement, vicious, voracious, wild, wolfish |
| Antonyms: | gentle, innocent, kind, mild, nonviolent, tame, tender |
| 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: | predatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eating, destroying for sustenance or without conscience |
| Synonyms: | bloodthirsty, carnivorous, depredatory, despoiling, greedy, hungry, hunting, marauding, pillaging, plundering, predacious, predative, preying, rapacious, raptorial, ravaging, ravening, thieving, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish |
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