esurient
/i'sjuəriənt/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Extremely hungry or greedy for food: Characterized by an intense, often excessive, desire to consume food.
- Eagerly desirous; avid: Marked by an intense, sometimes excessive, craving or longing for something non-material.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- After the long hike, the travelers were esurient and devoured their meal.
- He had an esurient ambition for power that drove all his actions.
- The critic viewed the new art with esurient eyes, eager to consume its meaning.
Advanced Usage
- Literary/Formal Tone: The word "esurient" is primarily used in formal or literary contexts to convey a powerful, almost consuming desire. It is less common in everyday speech.
- The tyrant's esurient gaze fell upon the neighboring kingdom's resources.
Variants and Related Words
- Esurience (noun): The state or quality of being esurient; extreme hunger or greed.
- The esurience of his curiosity knew no bounds.
- Edacious (adj.): Synonym for devouring or consuming voraciously.
- Voracious (adj.): Having a huge appetite; excessively eager.
- Ravenous (adj.): Extremely hungry.
Synonyms
- Voracious: Wanting or consuming great quantities.
- Ravenous: Extremely hungry.
- Avid: Having or showing a keen interest or enthusiasm.
- Insatiable: Impossible to satisfy.
- Rapacious: Aggressively greedy or grasping.
Related Phrases
- Esurient for/after: A construction indicating a strong desire for something.
- She was esurient for knowledge, reading every book she could find.
Related Idioms
Note: There are no common idioms that use the exact word "esurient." Its synonyms are more frequently found in idiomatic expressions.
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