voracious 音标拼音: [vɔr'eʃəs]
a . 狼吞虎咽的,贪婪的
狼吞虎咽的,贪婪的
voracious adj 1 :
excessively greedy and grasping ; "
a rapacious divorcee on the prowl "; "
ravening creditors "; "
paying taxes to voracious governments " [
synonym : {
rapacious }, {
ravening },
{
voracious }]
2 :
devouring or craving food in great quantities ; "
edacious vultures "; "
a rapacious appetite "; "
ravenous as wolves ";
"
voracious sharks " [
synonym : {
edacious }, {
esurient }, {
rapacious },
{
ravening }, {
ravenous }, {
voracious }, {
wolfish }]
Voracious \
Vo *
ra "
cious \,
a . [
L .
vorax , -
acis ,
fr .
vorare to devour ;
akin to Gr . ?
meat ,
food , ?
to devour ,
Skr .
gar .
Cf .
{
Devour }.]
Greedy in eating ;
very hungry ;
eager to devour or swallow ;
ravenous ;
gluttonous ;
edacious ;
rapacious ;
as ,
a voracious man or appetite ;
a voracious gulf or whirlpool . --
Dampier . --
{
Vo *
ra "
cious *
ly },
adv . -- {
Vo *
ra "
cious *
ness },
n .
[
1913 Webster ]
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "
voracious ":
Apician ,
a hog for ,
acquisitive ,
all -
devouring ,
ardent ,
avaricious ,
avid ,
bolting ,
bottomless ,
cormorant ,
coveting ,
covetous ,
cramming ,
crapulent ,
crapulous ,
desirous ,
devoted ,
devouring ,
dog -
hungry ,
eager ,
earnest ,
edacious ,
empty ,
enormous ,
enthusiastic ,
esurient ,
famished ,
famishing ,
fasting ,
fervent ,
fervid ,
glutting ,
gluttonizing ,
gluttonous ,
gobbling ,
gorging ,
grabby ,
grasping ,
greedy ,
gulping ,
guttling ,
guzzling ,
half -
famished ,
half -
starved ,
hoggish ,
hungering ,
hungry ,
hyperphagic ,
insatiable ,
insatiate ,
intemperate ,
limitless ,
mercenary ,
miserly ,
money -
hungry ,
money -
mad ,
omnivorous ,
overgreedy ,
passionate ,
peckish ,
piggish ,
pinched with hunger ,
polyphagic ,
predacious ,
prodigious ,
quenchless ,
rapacious ,
ravening ,
ravenous ,
satiating ,
sating ,
sharp -
set ,
slakeless ,
sordid ,
starved ,
starving ,
stuffing ,
surfeiting ,
swinish ,
thirsty ,
unappeasable ,
unappeased ,
uncontrollable ,
uncontrolled ,
unfilled ,
unquenchable ,
unsated ,
unsatisfied ,
unslakeable ,
unslaked ,
venal ,
wolfing ,
wolfish ,
zealous
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