What is the difference between ravenous and hungry?

As adjectives the difference between ravenous and hungry

is that ravenous is very hungry while hungry is affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food.

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

hungry

English

Adjective

(er)

Affected by hunger; desiring of food; having a physical need for food.

My kids go to bed hungry every night because I haven't got any money .

(figuratively) Eager, having an avid desire ('appetite') for something.

* Charles Kingsley

The cruel, hungry foam.

* Shakespeare

Cassius has a lean and hungry look.

Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.

a hungry soil

* Shakespeare

The hungry beach.

Synonyms

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