voracious
/vɔːˈɹeɪ.ʃəs/
voracious adjective: wanting or devouring great quantities of food.
Adjective
voracious (comparative more voracious, superlative most voracious)
voracious meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
voracious in Tamil
- பெரு வேட்கையுடைய, பெரும் பசியுடைய, பெருந்தீனி தின்னுகிற
voracious in Urdu
- بےحد بھوکا, ہپو, لالچی, پیٹو
voracious in Bengali
- অত্যধিক ক্ষুধার্ত
voracious in Malayalam
- അതിഭക്ഷണപ്രിയമായ, വാരിവലിച്ചു തിന്നുന്ന, ദുരാഗ്രഹമുളള
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- voracious in Kannada
- ಬಾಯಿ ಚಪಲ, ತುಂಬಾ ಹಸಿದ, ಹೊಟ್ಟೆಬಾಕನಾದ, ತುಂಬಾ ಕಡಗುವ
- voracious in Sanskrit
- भोजन bhojana
- voracious in Arabic
- قِرْشَبّ qiršabb, أَكُول ʔakūl
- voracious in Indonesian
- voracious
- voracious in Persian
- پرخور por-xor, شکمو šekamu, پرولع por-vala'
- voracious in Thai
- ตะกละ dtà-glà
Examples of voracious in a sentence
- I never had so much as […] one wish to God to direct me whither I should go, or to keep me from the danger which apparently surrounded me, as well from voracious creatures as cruel savages.1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam]...
- Retreating before stronger breeds, hungry and voracious, the Eskimo has drifted to the inhospitable polar regions, the Pygmy to the fever-rotten jungles of Africa.1917, Jack London, “The Human Drift”, in The Human Drift, New York: Macmillan, page 3:
- Methodical and voracious, these hackers wanted all the files they could find.2005 August 29, Nathan Thornburgh, “The Invasion of the Chinese Cyberspies”, in Time:
- Phoenix: Moe seems to be a voracious reader.2007 March 16, Capcom Production Studio 4, quoting Phoenix, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice for All, Europe: Capcom, →OCLC, Nintendo...
Synonyms of voracious
- eager
- edacious
- esurient
- gluttonous
- hungry as a hog
- insatiable
- lupine
- pantagruelian
- rapacious
- ravening
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Antonyms
Forms of voracious
| comparative | more voracious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most voracious |
Origin of voracious
From Latin vorāx + English -acious. First attested in the 17th century.
Words formed from voracious
Words that rhyme with voracious
- gracious
- sequacious
- tenacious
- vexatious
- hellacious
- herbaceous
- ostentatious
- rapacious
- sebaceous
- vinaceous
- vivacious
- -aceous
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- acanthaceous
- alsinaceous
- audacious
- capacious
- contumacious
- cretaceous
- fallacious
- farinaceous
- flirtatious
- inefficacious
- juglandaceous
- mendacious
- micaceous
- orchidaceous
- perspicacious
- pertinacious
- salacious
- saponaceous
- spacious
- strobilaceous
- veracious
- Acacius
- acinaceous
- alliaceous
- amentaceous
- amylaceous
- annonaceous
- apocynaceous
- argillaceous
- atramentaceous
- avenaceous
- bardacious
- bulbaceous
- camphoraceous
- camphrous
- carbonaceous
- cetaceous
- cucurbitaceous
- curvaceous
- dicacious
- edacious
- efficacious
- erinaceous
- fabaceous
- frumentaceous
- lamentacious
- lauraceous
- liliaceous
Questions about voracious
- What does voracious mean?
- Voracious means wanting or devouring great quantities of food.
- What is voracious in Tamil?
- Voracious in Tamil is பெரு வேட்கையுடைய, பெரும் பசியுடைய, பெருந்தீனி தின்னுகிற. See Voracious meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use voracious in a sentence?
- I never had so much as […] one wish to God to direct me whither I should go, or to keep me from the danger which apparently surrounded me, as well from voracious creatures as cruel savages.
- What part of speech is voracious?
- Voracious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce voracious?
- Voracious is pronounced /vɔːˈɹeɪ.ʃəs/.
Words near voracious in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: voracious (page history and authors); voracious (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); voracious (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); voracious (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); voracious (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); voracious (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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