ravenous hunger

All-consuming food need

Ravenous hunger describes an intense and overwhelming need to eat, often characterized by a feeling of emptiness or urgency: After the long hike, we were overcome with ravenous hunger.

starvationExtreme nutritional deprivation
empty stomachDigestive tract without food
greedExcessive desire for wealth
appetiteDesire for food
gluttonyGreedy excess in consumption

voracity · emptiness · famine · food insecurity · ache · neediness · longing · thirst · yearning · craving · obsession · malnutrition · waste away · lust · ambition · loneliness · starving artist · feast

Opposites

intensity of appetite

ravenous hungeranorexia

Eating disorder, self-starvation

appetite suppression · food aversion

satiation state

ravenous hungerstuffed

Filled beyond capacity

repletion · fullness · overfull · satiation · bloated

desire/craving intensity

ravenous hungerloss of appetite

Reduced urge to eat

anorexia · contentedness · complacency · nonchalance

Family

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Familiarity: Top 200,000
Profile: Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G