Adjective

(en adjective)

Very hungry.

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)

, chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.}}

(rfc-sense) Eager for prey or gratification.

* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 3, ch. IX, ''Working Aristocracy

Supply-and-demand? One begins to be weary of such work. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause: — it is the Gospel of Despair!

Adjective

(en adjective)

Actuated]] by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of [[accumulate, accumulating property.

* Robert Montgomery Bird (1806-1854)

In a word, he was called a hard, avaricious , rapacious man, whose chief business was to enrich himself...