adj
Meaning 1
Very hungry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
ravenous
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
Pronunciation
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/ˈɹævənəs/
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adj
Meaning 2
Greedy, characterized by strong desires.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
devouring or craving food in great quantities
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- edacious vultures
- a rapacious appetite
- ravenous as wolves
- voracious sharks
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, voracious, wolfish
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
extremely hungry
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- they were tired and famished for food and sleep
- a ravenous boy
- the family was starved and ragged
- fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: famished, sharp-set, starved, esurient
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English ravenous, ravynous, from Old French ravineus. By surface analysis, ravin + -ous. As seen at raven and ravin, the word comes from a root referring to predation, not from the root referring to ravens (corvid birds); but folk etymology notes that the latter hypothesis seems plausible because ravens can often seem ravenous (especially as nestlings).
Across languages
Translations
65 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Breton: lontek — very hungry
- Bulgarian: ла́ком (lákom) — very hungry
- Catalan: famèlic — very hungry
- Catalan: voraç — very hungry
- Czech: vyhladovělý — very hungry
- Dutch: uitgehongerd — very hungry
- Esperanto: englutema — very hungry
- Finnish: sudennälkäinen — very hungry
- French: affamé — very hungry
- French: vorace — very hungry
- Galician: esfameado — very hungry
- Galician: famento — very hungry
- Georgian: მძარცველური (mʒarcveluri) — very hungry
- German: gefräßig — very hungry
- German: ausgehungert — very hungry
- German: heißhungrig — very hungry
- Greek: λιμασμένος (limasménos) — very hungry
- Ancient Greek: πρόσπεινος (próspeinos) — very hungry
- Ancient Greek: ὀξύπεινος (oxúpeinos) — very hungry
- Hungarian: falánk — very hungry
- Hungarian: farkaséhes — very hungry
- Ido: devorema — very hungry
- Interlingua: devorante — very hungry
- Irish: cíocrach — very hungry
- Irish: aimirneach — very hungry
- Irish: gionach — very hungry
- Italian: famelico — very hungry
- Italian: affamato — very hungry
- Italian: vorace — very hungry
- Kalasha: yazid — very hungry
- Latin: vorax — very hungry
- Māori: warawara — very hungry
- Māori: whakapakari — very hungry
- Māori: pakaroa — very hungry
- Occitan: famelic — very hungry
- Old English: grǣdiġ — very hungry
- Polish: zachłanny — very hungry
- Polish: żarłoczny — very hungry
- Portuguese: faminto — very hungry
- Portuguese: famélico — very hungry
- Portuguese: voraz — very hungry
- Portuguese: ávido — very hungry
- Portuguese: guloso — very hungry
- Portuguese: sedento — very hungry
- Romanian: vorace — very hungry
- Romanian: flămând — very hungry
- Russian: изголодавшийся (izgolodavšijsja) — very hungry
- Scottish Gaelic: gionach — very hungry
- Scottish Gaelic: craosach — very hungry
- Serbo-Croatian: халапљив — very hungry
- Serbo-Croatian: прождрљив — very hungry
- Serbo-Croatian: halapljiv — very hungry
- Serbo-Croatian: proždrljiv — very hungry
- Spanish: angurriento — very hungry
- Swedish: svulten — very hungry
- Ottoman Turkish: اوبور (obur) — very hungry
- Ottoman Turkish: قورساقسز (kursaksız) — very hungry
- Ukrainian: ненаже́рливий (nenažérlyvyj) — very hungry
- Bulgarian: хищен (hišten) — eager for prey or gratification
- Bulgarian: грабителски (grabitelski) — eager for prey or gratification
- Finnish: ahne — eager for prey or gratification
- French: avide — eager for prey or gratification
- Portuguese: ávido — eager for prey or gratification
- Scottish Gaelic: gionach — eager for prey or gratification
- Spanish: ávido de presa — eager for prey or gratification
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