Entry Word: voracious

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 having a huge appetite <it seemed like the voracious kitten was eating her weight in food every day>

Synonyms gluttonous, greedy, hoggish, piggish, rapacious, ravenous

Related Words hearty, wolfish; devouring, gobbling, gorging, gormandizing, insatiable, unquenchable; empty, famished, hungry, starved, starving; malnourished, underfed, undernourished

Near Antonyms full, content, sated, satisfied

2 showing urgent desire or interest <a voracious reader> — see eager