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Ravenous vs Esurient - What's the difference?

ravenous | esurient |

As adjectives the difference between ravenous and esurient

is that ravenous is very hungry while esurient is very hungry or greedy; ravenous.

As a noun esurient is

one who is hungry or greedy.

ravenous

English

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!

    Synonyms

    * starving (qualifier) * See also

    See also

    * voracious

    esurient

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Very hungry or greedy; ravenous.
    • (Bailey)
  • * Carlyle
    • Poor, but esurient .
  • *1983 , (Alasdair Gray), ‘Logopandocy’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012 ), p. 177:
  • *:I answered that such freedom would be worse than the vilest slavery, for it would leave me free to do nothing but grappel till death with clusterfist creditors and esurient Kirkists […].
  • avid

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who is hungry or greedy.
  • * Wood
    • An insatiable esurient after riches.

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