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Voracious vs Ravening - What's the difference?

voracious | ravening |

As adjectives the difference between voracious and ravening

is that voracious is wanting or devouring great quantities of food while ravening is voracious and greedy.

As a noun ravening is

eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.

voracious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.
  • * 1719 , , Robinson Crusoe , ch. 6:
    • 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.
  • * 1867 , , ch. 45:
    • 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.
  • * 1910 , , "The Human Drift":
    • Retreating before stronger breeds, hungry and voracious , the Eskimo has drifted to the inhospitable polar regions.
  • Having a great appetite for anything (e.g., a voracious reader ).
  • * 1922 , , ch. 7:
    • 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.
  • * 2005 , Nathan Thornburgh, " The Invasion of the Chinese Cyberspies," Time , 29 Aug.:
    • Methodical and voracious , these hackers wanted all the files they could find.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * voraciously * voraciousness * voracity

    ravening

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Voracious and greedy.
    • There is no shortage of ravening friends and relatives on the day one hits the lottery.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.
  • * The Gospel according to St. Matthew. Chap 7.15:
    • Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolfes.