voracious

voracious is a 9-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool.
2. adjective. devouring or craving food in great quantities

   "edacious vultures"

   "a rapacious appetite"

   Synonyms: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, wolfish

3. adjective. excessively greedy and grasping

   "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"

   "ravening creditors"

   Synonyms: rapacious, ravening

Synonyms

edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, wolfish

Common word forms

voraciously, voraciousness

Words from these letters

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