Meaning
- Ravenous (adjective) means extremely hungry.
- It can also describe an intense eagerness or desire for something (not only food, but also power, attention, knowledge, etc.).
Grammar and Usage
- Part of speech: Adjective
- Often used with nouns related to food, appetite, or desire.
- Can be used both literally and figuratively.
Structures:
- be ravenous
- a ravenous appetite
- ravenous for something
Common Phrases
- Ravenous hunger
- Ravenous appetite
- Ravenous beast
- Ravenous for success/power
Collocations
- Ravenous + hunger/appetite
- Feel/be ravenous
- Ravenous + crowd/animal
- Ravenous + desire/thirst
Examples
- After the long hike, we were absolutely ravenous.
- He had a ravenous appetite and ate three plates of pasta.
- The ravenous wolves circled the campfire.
- She was ravenous for knowledge and read every book she could find.
- I’m ravenous—let’s order pizza right now.
- The children were ravenous after playing outside all day.
- His ravenous thirst for power made him ruthless.
- The soldiers returned from battle, ravenous and exhausted.
Synonyms or Related
- starving, famished, voracious, insatiable, greedy, eager