Definition of ravenous
1 : rapacious ravenous wolves
2 : very eager or greedy for food, satisfaction, or gratification a ravenous appetite
ravenously
adverbravenousness
nounFrom the M-W Editors
Examples of ravenous in a Sentence
By the time dinner was ready, we were ravenous.
we were ravenous after our canoe paddling, and the chili bubbling over the campfire smelled heavenly
Recent Examples of ravenous from the Web
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The ravenous insects turned the Edwards Field grandstand, where generations of parents in north Orange County watched their kids play ball, into a bug smorgasbord.
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That was Outkast’s White Album, a schizophrenic dose of G-funk and future soul that won ravenous converts among the most lily-white of listeners.
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First Known Use of ravenous
15th century
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: very hungry
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