1 (of a person or an animal) extremely hungry
SYNSTARVING:
What's for lunch? I'm absolutely ravenous.
2 [onlybeforenoun] (of hunger) very great:
a ravenous appetite
ravenously adverb:
The boy ate gratefully and ravenously. * Even after the meal, she was still ravenously hungry.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for ravenous is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is ravenous a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, ravenous is tagged as adjective.
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