voracious

voracious

adjective

Definition of VORACIOUS

1

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

Synonyms edacious, esurient, 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

2

showing urgent desire or interest <a voracious reader>

Synonyms agog, antsy, anxious, ardent, athirst, avid, crazy, desirous, enthused, enthusiastic, excited, geeked [slang], great, greedy, gung ho, hepped up, hopped-up, hot, hungry, impatient, juiced, keen, nuts, pumped, raring, solicitous, stoked [slang], thirsty, voracious, wild

Related Words engaged, interested; happy, hung up, obsessed; ambitious, appetent, covetous, craving, hankering, longing, pining; breathless, restive, restless; amenable, disposed, game, glad, inclined, ready, unreluctant, willing

Near Antonyms casual, incurious, insouciant, nonchalant, unconcerned, uninterested; aloof, detached, disinterested; impassive, stolid; halfhearted, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, lukewarm, spiritless; averse, disinclined, hesitant, loath (also loth or loathe), reluctant, unwilling

Antonyms apathetic, indifferent, uneager, unenthusiastic