esurient
Meanings
Plural: esurients
Adjective Satellite
- extremely hungry
- "fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy"
- (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous
- "the esurient eyes of an avid curiosity"
- devouring or craving food in great quantities
Adj
- Very greedy or hungry; ravenous; (figuratively) avid, eager.
Noun
- One who is greedy or hungry.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ēsurient, ēsurientem, from ēsuriēns (“hungering”), present participle of ēsuriō (“to be hungry, to hunger for something”), a desiderative verb from edō (“to eat”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁édti (“to eat”)) + -turiō (suffix indicating a desire for an action).
Synonyms
avid, cormorant, devouring, edacious, esurient, famished, gluttonous, greedy, gutfoundered, hungry as a hog, insatiable, lupine, pantagruelian, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, sharp-set, starved, voracious, wolfish
Scrabble Score: 8
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