Ravening vs Ravenous - What's the difference?
ravening | ravenous |
Voracious and greedy.
Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.
* The Gospel according to St. Matthew. Chap 7.15:
Very hungry.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= (rfc-sense) Eager for prey or gratification.
* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 3, ch. IX, ''Working Aristocracy
As adjectives the difference between ravening and ravenous
is that ravening is voracious and greedy while ravenous is very hungry.As a noun ravening
is eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.ravening
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- There is no shortage of ravening friends and relatives on the day one hits the lottery.
Noun
(en noun)- Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolfes.
ravenous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)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.}}
- 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!