Synonyms for voracious
- adjective
Most common
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Ravenous
ravenous, rapacious, insatiable, gluttonous, greedy, ravening, omnivorous, hungry, predatory, money-hungry informal, acquisitive, covetous, wolfish, edacious formal, esurient, hoggish, avaricious, sordid, grasping, piggish, insatiate formal dated
Other
eager, pantagruelian, cormorant dated
Definitions
- adj. 1
Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.
He is voracious by suppertime.
Related words
- Word family
- voraciousness voracity
- Is a kind of
- greedy hungry
Example sentences
- insatiable Dan had an insatiable appetite towards violence.
- ravenous Whenever I'm worried, I work up a ravenous appetite.
- rapacious Ukrainians don't deserve to be invaded by a rapacious army.
- eager Tom said that he was eager to eat lunch with Mary.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| voracious | rising | |
| insatiable | rising | |
| ravenous | rising | |
| rapacious | rising | |
| gluttonous | rising | |
| eager | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- eager2
- 6 letters
- hungry2, greedy2, sordid2
- 7 letters
- wolfish, piggish, hoggish
- 8 letters
- grasping2, ravenous3, covetous, ravening, edacious, esurient
- 9 letters
- predatory4, rapacious3, cormorant3, insatiate
- 10 letters
- insatiable4, omnivorous4, gluttonous3, avaricious
- 11 letters
- acquisitive4
- 13 letters
- pantagruelian
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (eager2 = 2 syllables).