Veracious vs Voracious - What's the difference?
veracious | voracious |
truthful
:The politician's statement was proven to be veracious by all who examined it.
Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.
* 1719 , , Robinson Crusoe , ch. 6:
* 1867 , , ch. 45:
* 1910 , , "The Human Drift":
Having a great appetite for anything (e.g., a voracious reader ).
* 1922 , , ch. 7:
* 2005 , Nathan Thornburgh, "
As adjectives the difference between veracious and voracious
is that veracious is truthful while voracious is wanting or devouring great quantities of food.veracious
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Adjective
(en adjective)See also
*voraciousvoracious
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Adjective
(en adjective)- I never had so much as . . . one wish to God to direct me whither I should go, or to keep me from the danger which apparently surrounded me, as well from voracious creatures as cruel savages.
- The old man was up, betimes, next morning, and waited impatiently for the appearance of his new associate, who after a delay that seemed interminable, at length presented himself, and commenced a voracious assault on the breakfast.
- Retreating before stronger breeds, hungry and voracious , the Eskimo has drifted to the inhospitable polar regions.
- If he carried chiefly his appetite, a zeal for tiled bathrooms, a conviction that the Pullman car is the acme of human comfort, and a belief that it is proper to tip waiters, taxicab drivers, and barbers, but under no circumstances station agents and ushers, then his Odyssey will be replete with good meals and bad meals, bathing adventures, compartment-train escapades, and voracious demands for money.
The Invasion of the Chinese Cyberspies," Time , 29 Aug.:
- Methodical and voracious , these hackers wanted all the files they could find.