The meaning of Voracious

adjective

Having or showing a keen interest in or enthusiasm for something.

Usage examples:

An avid reader of science fiction

adjective

Extremely eager or interested

Usage examples:

Knowles is an avid runner and cross-country skier., we listened avidly to the news from our secret …

adjective

Resulting from or relating to an irresistible urge.

Usage examples:

Compulsive eating

noun

A powerful desire for something.

Usage examples:

A craving for chocolate

verb

Feel a powerful desire for (something).

Usage examples:

If only she had shown her daughter the love she craved

noun

A strong or uncontrollable desire

Usage examples:

We had a craving for zucchini bread.

adjective

Having or characterized by desire.

Usage examples:

The pope was desirous of peace in europe

adjective

Wanting something

Usage examples:

The duke is desirous of meeting you.

adjective

Strongly wanting to do or have something.

Usage examples:

The man was eager to please

adjective

Having or showing desire or interest

Usage examples:

Lots of eager volunteers responded to the appeal for help.

adjective

Having or showing intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.

Usage examples:

He could be wildly enthusiastic about a project

adjective

Showing enthusiasm

Usage examples:

Enthusiastic about you don't seem very enthusiastic about the party - don't you want to go tonight?

adjective

Excessively greedy.

Usage examples:

A group of gluttonous party-goers

adjective

Eating and drinking more than you need

Usage examples:

She said that industrialized countries should reduce their gluttonous (= greater than is needed) co…

adjective

Having an excessive desire or appetite for food.

Usage examples:

He's scoffed the lot, the greedy pig

adjective

Wanting a lot more food, money, etc. than you need

Usage examples:

Greedy, selfish people, he's greedy for power/success., they tested the algorithm against the so-ca…

adjective

Feeling or showing the need for food.

Usage examples:

I was feeling ravenously hungry

adjective

Feeling the need to eat because there has been a period of time when you have not eaten

Usage examples:

The children are always hungry when they get home from school., they were poor and often went to be…

suffix

Having a great need or wish for the stated thing

Usage examples:

Capital-/cash-/money-hungry, energy-/power-hungry the energy-hungry transportation sector was weak …

adjective

(of an appetite or desire) impossible to satisfy.

Usage examples:

An insatiable hunger for success

adjective

(of a desire or need) too great to be satisfied

Usage examples:

An insatiable appetite, insatiable curiosity

adjective

Having or showing eagerness or enthusiasm.

Usage examples:

A keen gardener

verb

Wail in grief for a dead person.

Usage examples:

The body of johnny was taken by his own people who keened over him

noun

An irish funeral song accompanied by wailing in lamentation for the dead.

adjective

(of an animal or person) feeding on a variety of food of both plant and animal origin.

Usage examples:

Sloth bears are omnivorous and feed on a variety of foods depending on what is available.

adjective

Eating both plants and meat

Usage examples:

Bears are omnivorous.

adjective

Remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree.

Usage examples:

The stove consumed a prodigious amount of fuel

adjective

Extremely great in ability, amount, or strength

Usage examples:

Americans are the world’s most prodigious consumers., a prodigiously gifted artist

adjective

Aggressively greedy or grasping.

Usage examples:

Rapacious landlords

adjective

Extremely hungry.

Usage examples:

I'd been out all day and was ravenous

adjective

Extremely hungry

Usage examples:

We were ravenous after hiking all day.

adjective

Not able to be pacified, placated, or satisfied.

Usage examples:

Divine, unappeasable justice

adjective

Not controllable.

Usage examples:

Her brother had an uncontrollable temper

adjective

Too strong or violent to be controlled

Usage examples:

An uncontrollable temper, i felt an uncontrollable desire to sit down., he was laughing uncontrolla…

adjective

Not controlled.

Usage examples:

Some uncontrolled children rather marred the proceedings

adjective

Existing or happening with nothing able to stop it

Usage examples:

Uncontrolled shivering, the uncontrolled spread of urban sprawl

adjective

Not able to be quenched.

Usage examples:

His enthusiasm was unquenchable

adjective

Used for describing a feeling that is so strong that it cannot be satisfied

Usage examples:

An unquenchable thirst/desire