edacious
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of edacious
Explanation
Watching your edacious uncle at an all-you-can-eat buffet would be an alarming experience, since edacious means eating huge amounts of food ravenously. If you go all day without eating, you're bound to be edacious by dinner time. Although sometimes the adjective edacious is used to simply mean "related to eating," it more usually implies a gluttonous devouring of food. The root word is the Latin edax, "voracious or gluttonous," which comes from edere, "to eat."
Vocabulary lists containing edacious
Example Sentences
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And that he became audacious, edacious, and loquacious, is evident from such wit and flippancy as he here likes to display.
From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani
Augustus, the physically strong, is no more; transcendent king of edacious flunkies, father of 354 children, but not without fine qualities; and Poland has to find a new king.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
King of edacious Flunkies; not without fine qualities, which he turned to such a use amid the temptations of this world!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09 by Thomas Carlyle
The stars proceeded in their courses, Nature with her subversive forces, Time, too, the iron-toothed and sinewed; And the edacious years continued.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson
These words Hyndford listened to with an edacious solid countenance, and greedily took them down.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 13 by Thomas Carlyle
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