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voracious
Meaning: having a huge appetite; consuming or craving in great quantities
voracious in a sentence
How voracious is used in real sentences:
She's a voracious reader — three books a week.
She's a voracious reader — three books a week.
“However, the first plan had a voracious appetite for lumber and required more boards than the shop could store.”
— from the passage The Turning Walls
Synonyms for voracious
Other words for voracious — insatiable, ravenous, gluttonous and avid — carry the same meaning.
- insatiable
- ravenous
- gluttonous
- avid
Antonyms of voracious
Words that mean the opposite of voracious:
Where it comes from
From Latin vorare 'to devour'
Memory hook
VORACIOUS = devOUR-acious.