Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
adjective
- extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day’s work.
- extremely rapacious: a ravenous jungle beast.
- intensely eager for gratification or satisfaction.
adjective
- famished; starving
- rapacious; voracious
late 14c., “obsessed with plundering, extremely greedy,” from Old French ravinos, of people, “rapacious, violent,” of water, “swift-flowing,” from raviner “to seize,” from ravine “violent rush, robbery” (see ravine). Meaning “voracious, very hungry” is from early 15c. Related: Ravenously; ravenousness.