voracious
[adjective]
Synonyms:
- gluttonous, greedy, hungry, insatiable, omnivorous, ravenous
- avid, hungry, insatiable, rapacious, uncontrolled, unquenchable

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Related Words: acquisitive, covetous, grasping, greedy, devouring, gorging, satiating, sating, surfeiting, avid, insatiable

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

vo‧ra‧cious /vəˈreɪʃəs, vɒ- $ vɔː-, və-/ adjective
[Date: 1600-1700; Language: Latin; Origin: vorax, from vorare; ⇒ devour]

1. eating or wanting large quantities of food:
Pigs are voracious feeders.
Kids can have voracious appetites.

2. having an extremely strong desire to do or have a lot of something:
a voracious reader
Her appetite for information was voracious.
—voraciously adverb:
Anne has always read voraciously.
—voracity /-ˈræsəti, -ˈræsɪti/ noun [uncountable]

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