ravenous
Meaning of ravenous
- extremely hungry.
I'd been out all day and was ravenous
late Middle English: from Old French ravineus, from raviner ‘to ravage’ (see raven2).
Information about ravenous
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of ravenous
rav-en-ous
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- ravenous is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
ravenous synonyms
Meaning famished:
Meaning edacious:
edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, voracious, wolfish
Meaning suffering or dying from hunger:
ravenous antonyms
Meaning containing or holding as much or as many as possible; having no empty space:
Translation of ravenous
- French: vorace, glouton
- German: gefräßig
- Spanish: voraz
- Portuguese: voraz
- Italian: vorace, famelico, ingordo
Words that rhyme with ravenous
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