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voracious
[ vaw-rey-shuhs, vuh- ]
adjective
- craving or consuming large quantities of food:
a voracious appetite.
- exceedingly eager or avid:
voracious readers; a voracious collector.
Synonyms: insatiable, rapacious
voracious
/ vɒˈræsɪtɪ; vɒˈreɪʃəs /
adjective
- devouring or craving food in great quantities
- very eager or unremitting in some activity
voracious reading
Derived Forms
- voracity, noun
- voˈraciously, adverb
Other Words From
- vo·ra·cious·ly adverb
- vo·ra·cious·ness noun
- un·vo·ra·cious adjective
- un·vo·ra·cious·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of voracious1
Word History and Origins
Origin of voracious1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Our host, the mathematician and author Steven Strogatz, has a voracious intellectual curiosity, but it’s his warm and empathetic nature that makes listening to these interviews such a rewarding, even moving experience.
To Klobuchar, anti-competitive behavior by the giants of tech has been fueled by a voracious appetite for personal data, which she argues helps fund disinformation and disadvantages the sorts of publishers her dad once worked for.
With the world on lockdown, many of us have become voracious online shoppers.
Seething and voracious, it absorbs eight dinner-plate-size helpings every few seconds.
When it comes to the impact on how people search, we’ve seen that consumers’ appetite for information is as voracious as ever.
The sexual appetites of the popes were often just as voracious.
So, if his father was like that, and Cumming shares his voracious sexual appetite, how does he behave differently?
Because the federal government has become so ubiquitous and voracious, there seems to be no negotiating with its size and scope.
I was grateful I could supplement my voracious reading with other media, as it kept me feeling current.
The voracious fans tore it to pieces and “shock rock” was born.
Fire was again given to the voracious jaws of the boilers, and the three engines recommenced their labours and their rivalries.
The Ternat bats are carnivorous animals, voracious, and possessed of an appetite for every thing that offers.
It is in the most beautiful azure depths of the limpid water that this hideous, voracious polyp delights.
The gods were voracious as wolves, and the victims as numerous.
And the mantis is so voracious that you can cut her in two without making her let go; a chain, truly, of carnage.
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