- Types Of Speech
- You can use ravenous as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Ravenous
- A 3 syllables adjective satellite and 8 letters with the letters a, e, n, o, r, s, u, and v, 4 consonants, 4 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letters en. Ravenous starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters r, ra, rav, rave, raven, and the ending characters are s, us, ous, nous, enous, ..
- Definition
- Devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks"
- Origin/Roots
- Old French
- Compound Words
- A compound word, ravenous has more than one word within it. There's 2 words which are rave, and nous.
- School Grade
- Ravenous is set as a sat word that starts with r, ends with s, 3 syllables, 4 vowels and 8 letters.
- Pig Latin
- Ravenous in Pig Latin is said as "avenousray or avenousrway".
- Unigram
- r | a | v | e | n | o | u | s
- Bigram
- ra | av | ve | en | no | ou | us
- Trigram
- rav | ave | ven | eno | nou | ous
- Quadrigram
- rave | aven | veno | enou | nous
- Word Gram
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- devouring or craving food in great quantities;
"edacious vultures";
"a rapacious appetite";
"ravenous as wolves";
"voracious sharks" - extremely hungry;
"they were tired and famished for food and sleep";
"a ravenous boy";
"the family was starved and ragged";
"fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy"
Synonym | Definition |
---|---|
Acquisitive | eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas "an acquisitive mind" "an aquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied" |
Aegir | a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) |
All Devouring | |
All Engulfing | |
Animal | a living organism characterized by voluntary movement |
Animate Being | |
Anthropophagous | of or relating to eaters of human flesh |
Apician | |
Ardent | glowing or shining like fire "from rank to rank she darts her ardent eyes"- Alexander Pope "frightened by his ardent burning eyes" |
Atrocious | provoking horror "an atrocious automobile accident" "a frightful crime of decapitation" "an alarming, even horrifying, picture" "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill "an ugly wound" |
View all cognitive synonyms for Ravenous
Anagram | Definition |
---|---|
Ravenous | devouring or craving food in great quantities "edacious vultures" "a rapacious appetite" "ravenous as wolves" "voracious sharks" |
View English words with the unique letters used in ravenous. Words With The Letters Aenorsuv
Similar Word | Definition |
---|---|
Gluttonous | given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink; "over-fed women and their gluttonous husbands"; "a gluttonous debauch"; "a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure" |
Ravenous Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With R
- Ends With S
- Spelled With / Contains Letters