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voracious

vɔːˈreɪʃəsadjective

What does voracious mean?

Wanting huge amounts of food, or of anything, like books.

Voracious, six ways

PlainWanting huge amounts of food, or of anything, like books.
ADHDNever full. Eats everything. Reads everything.
Gen ZDevours stuff. A voracious reader finishes the trilogy on a Sunday.
MetaphorA fire that treats the whole forest as one meal.
FormalWanting or devouring great quantities of food; by extension, insatiably eager.
Like I’m 5Wanting to eat or read more and more, never getting full. That’s voracious.

How to pronounce voracious

vuh-RAY-shus/vɔːˈreɪʃəs/

Voracious in a sentence

He was a voracious reader as a boy.
A voracious appetite after the hike.
She is a voracious reader of crime fiction.

Synonyms for voracious

ravenousVery hungry, for food.
insatiableCan never be satisfied.
avidEager, plainer, for hobbies.

Where voracious comes from

Latin. Vorare, to devour.

Good to know

Both literal (food) and figurative (books, knowledge).

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