voracious
Americanadjective
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craving or consuming large quantities of food.
a voracious appetite.
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exceedingly eager or avid.
voracious readers; a voracious collector.
- Synonyms:
- insatiable, rapacious
adjective
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devouring or craving food in great quantities
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very eager or unremitting in some activity
voracious reading
Related Words
See ravenous.
Other Word Forms
- unvoracious adjective
- unvoraciousness noun
- voraciously adverb
- voraciousness noun
- voracity noun
Etymology
Origin of voracious
First recorded in 1625–35; voraci(ty) + -ous
Example Sentences
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Tech companies’ voracious appetite for data centers is ratcheting up demand further, with the need for millions more miles of cables.
His 2024 reporting on data centers’ voracious power demand was part of a package of Journal stories that earned a New York Press Club award for national climate and environmental reporting.
Dialing down the content spending doesn’t seem to be an option, given the voracious appetite of Netflix’s global base of subscribers that now numbers more than 325 million.
As both a voracious reader and a writer, what do you think of the quantification of people’s reading, like someone saying they need to read 100 books this year?
Behind the value of one of the world’s fastest-appreciating assets is the voracious appetite of AI companies.
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