esurient

Adjective

• devouring or craving food in great quantities
  • edacious vultures
    
  • a rapacious appetite
    
  • ravenous as wolves
    
  • voracious sharks
    

• (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous
  • avid for adventure
    
  • an avid ambition to succeed
    
  • fierce devouring affection
    
  • the esurient eyes of an avid curiosity
    
  • greedy for fame
    

• extremely hungry
  • 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  edacious , rapacious , ravening , ravenous , voracious , wolfish , avid , devouring(a) , greedy , famished , sharp-set , starved