Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
Very greedy or hungry; ravenous; (figuratively) avid, eager.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: formal, humorous, often
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: cormorant, edacious, esurient, gluttonous, gutfoundered, hungry as a hog, insatiable, lupine, pantagruelian, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious
Antonyms: none provided
noun
One who is greedy or hungry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
devouring or craving food in great quantities
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: edacious, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
(often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: avid, devouring(a), greedy
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
extremely hungry
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: famished, ravenous, sharp-set, starved
Antonyms: none provided
History
Borrowed from Latin ēsurient, ēsurientem, from ēsuriēns (“hungering”), present participle of ēsuriō (“to be hungry, to hunger for something”), a desiderative verb from edō (“to eat”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h1édti (“to eat”)) + -turiō (suffix indicating a desire for an action).
Across languages
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
