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Ravenous vs Sated - What's the difference?

ravenous | sated |

As adjectives the difference between ravenous and sated

is that ravenous is very hungry while sated is in a state of complete and thorough satisfaction.

As a verb sated is

(sate).

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

    sated

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • In a state of complete and thorough satisfaction.
  • quelled of thirst or hunger.

    • Synonyms

    * satiate / satiated * satisfied * full (informal, as pertains to food)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sate)

    • Anagrams

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