edacious

/i'deiʃəs/

Thân thiện

The edacious child quickly finished the large bowl of pasta.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Devouring or craving food in great quantities; voracious: Describes an extremely eager or greedy appetite for food.
   • Marked by eagerness to consume; insatiable: Can be used metaphorically to describe an intense desire or consumption of non-food items, such as information or resources.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The edacious child finished the entire pizza by himself.
  • After the long hike, we had an edacious hunger.
  • She is an edacious reader, finishing several books a week.

Advanced Usage

• Metaphorical Use: Describing an intense, often greedy, consumption of abstract things.
  • The company has an edacious demand for raw materials.
  • His edacious curiosity led him to explore every detail of the ancient text.

Variants and Related Words

• Edacity (n): The quality of being edacious; voracity, ravenousness.
  • The edacity of the locust swarm was devastating to the crops.

Synonyms

• Voracious: Wanting or consuming great quantities.
• Ravenous: Extremely hungry.
• Rapacious: Excessively grasping or greedy (often for material things).
• Insatiable: Impossible to satisfy.
• Gluttonous: Excessively greedy in eating.

Antonyms

• Abstemious: Not self-indulgent, especially when eating and drinking.
• Moderate: Average in amount, intensity, or degree.
• Indifferent: Having no particular interest or sympathy.

Học thuật

Adjective

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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• esurient
• rapacious
• ravening
• ravenous
• voracious
• wolfish