ravenous

/'rævinəs/
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ravenous

The hiker felt ravenous after the long climb.

Definition
  1. Adjective:
    • Extremely hungry; feeling a strong desire or need for food: Describes an intense, often urgent physical need to eat.
    • Voracious; devouring or craving something with great eagerness or intensity: Can describe an insatiable appetite not only for food but also, by extension, for other things like knowledge or experience.
Usage
  • Used to describe a person or animal that is very hungry.
  • Can describe an intense, almost predatory eagerness or desire.
  • Often implies a lack of control or a desperate quality to the hunger.
Examples
  • Describing extreme hunger:
    • After hiking all day without lunch, I was absolutely ravenous.
    • The ravenous wolves circled the campsite.
  • Describing intense eagerness:
    • She is a ravenous reader, finishing several books a week.
    • He has a ravenous curiosity about the world.
Advanced Usage
  • "Ravenous for": Having an intense craving or desire for something.
    • The refugees were ravenous for news from their homeland.
    • The young artist was ravenous for recognition.
Variants and Related Words
  • Ravenously (adverb): In an extremely hungry or eager manner.
    • He ate ravenously after his fast.
  • Ravenousness (noun): The state of being ravenous.
    • His ravenousness was evident in how quickly he finished his meal.
Synonyms
  • Famished: Extremely hungry.
  • Voracious: Wanting or consuming great quantities of something.
  • Starving: Suffering or dying from hunger; (informally) very hungry.
  • Insatiable: Impossible to satisfy.
Antonyms
  • Sated: Satisfied fully, especially with food.
  • Full: Having eaten enough.
  • Indifferent: Having no particular interest or sympathy; unconcerned (in the context of appetite/desire).
Idioms and Phrases
  • Ravenous appetite: An extremely large or insatiable desire for food or, metaphorically, for something else.
    • The disease left him with a ravenous appetite but no energy.
    • She has a ravenous appetite for adventure.
ravenous

The hiker felt ravenous after the long climb.

Adjective
  1. devouring or craving food in great quantities
    • edacious vultures
    • a rapacious appetite
    • ravenous as wolves
    • voracious sharks
  2. 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

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