esurient

esu·ri·ent

adj \-ənt\

Definition of ESURIENT

: hungry, greedy

— esu·ri·ent·ly adverb

Examples of ESURIENT

1. <the deli is frequented by young, single professionals, esurient after those long hours spent staring at the monitor of a computer>

Origin of ESURIENT

Latin esurient-, esuriens, present participle of esurire to be hungry; akin to Latin edere to eat — more at eat

First Known Use: circa 1672

Related to ESURIENT

Synonyms: edacious, voracious, gluttonous, greedy, hoggish, piggish, rapacious, ravenous, swinish

Related Words: hearty, wolfish; devouring, gobbling, gorging, gormandizing, gulping; insatiable, unquenchable, unslakable; empty, famished, hungry, peckish [chiefly British], starved, starving; malnourished, underfed, undernourished

Near Antonyms: content, full, glutted, sated, satiated, satisfied, stuffed

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Rhymes with ESURIENT

luxuriant, parturient