1. (a.) Extremely hungry; furiously voracious\; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture.

2. (a.) Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire.

Apician a hog for acquisitive all-devouring all-engulfing avaricious avid bloodsucking bolting bottomless coveting covetous cramming crapulent crapulous devouring dog-hungry edacious empty esurient extortionate famished famishing fasting glutting gluttonizing gluttonous gobbling gorging grabby grasping greedy gulping guttling guzzling half-famished half-starved hoggish hungering hungry hyperphagic insatiable insatiate intemperate limitless lupine mercenary miserly money-hungry money-mad omnivorous overgreedy parasitic peckish piggish pinched with hunger polyphagic predacious predatory quenchless rapacious raptorial ravening sharkish sharp-set slakeless sordid starved starving stuffing swinish unappeasable unappeased unfilled unquenchable unsated unsatisfied unslakeable unslaked venal voracious vulturine vulturous wolfing wolfish