voraciousness
71longing — n wish, wishing, desire, desideration, want, wanting; yearning, hope, hoping, pining, sighing; hankering, Inf. yen, Sl. itch, fondness, liking, attraction; aspiration, ambition; inclination, predilection, preference, propensity, proclivity;… …
72rapacity — n 1. ravenousness, ravening, rapaciousness, craving, voracity, voraciousness, omniverousness. 2. avarice, avariciousness, cupidity, greed, greediness, avidity; graspingness, acquisitiveness, Inf. itching palm. 3. extortion, usury, bloodsucking,… …
73thirst — n 1. thirstiness, Med. polydipsia; dryness, parchedness, dehydration, desiccation. 2. craving, strong desire, eagerness, avidity, lust, lustfulness; desirousness, appetency, appetite, hunger, ravenousness, voracity, voraciousness; rapacity, rapa… …
74voracity — n 1. ravenousness, voraciousness, gluttony, edacity, edaciousness, open mouthedness, hog gishness, piggishness, swinishness, crapulousness; insatiability, insatiateness, omnivorousness, gulosity, Pathol. polyphagia. 2. desire, desriousness,… …
75yearning — n desire, longing, desideration, wish, wishing; hope, hoping, pining, sighing; hankering, Inf. yen, Sl. itch, Sl. itching; aspiration, emulation, ambition; fancy, fancying, coveting, covetousness, eagerness, ardor, craving; appetency, appetite,… …
76voracious — UK [vəˈreɪʃəs] / US adjective formal 1) a voracious person or animal eats a large amount of food 2) very keen to learn or to do something a voracious appetite for something: She has always had a voracious appetite for reading. 3) willing to do… …
77voracious — /vəˈreɪʃəs / (say vuh rayshuhs) adjective 1. devouring or craving food in large quantities: a voracious appetite. 2. greedy in eating; ravenous. 3. eager and indefatigable: *He took up his drink and moved off toward the bookcase: I m a voracious… …
78gel-2 and gʷel- — gel 2 and gʷel English meaning: to devour Deutsche Übersetzung: “verschlingen” Note: the form with gʷ presumably after Osthoff IF. 4, 287, Zupitza Gutt. 86 through hybridization from gel with gʷer . Material: A. certainly gel… …
79voracious — [vô rā′shəs, vərā′shəs] adj. [L vorax (gen. voracis), greedy to devour < vorare, to devour < IE base * gwer , to devour, GORGE > Gr bora, food (of carnivorous beasts), L gurges, gorge] 1. greedy in eating; devouring or eager to devour… …
80edacious — adjective devouring or craving food in great quantities edacious vultures a rapacious appetite ravenous as wolves voracious sharks • Syn: ↑esurient, ↑rapacious, ↑ravening, ↑ravenou …
