voracious

Never getting full

Voracious describes an insatiable appetite—for food, knowledge, or experience.

A voracious eater devours everything in sight.

A voracious reader consumes books rapidly and constantly.

The word implies not just hunger but a fierce, almost aggressive intensity: a voracious appetite for gossip, voracious consumers of online content.

appetite

insatiable

Impossible to satisfy

starving · hungering · craving · unquenchable · unappeasable · bottomless · all-consuming · devouring · gorging · bingeing

consumer

devouring

Eating greedily and quickly

unsustainable · wasteful · excessive · overconsumption · hoarding · acquisitive · materialistic · insatiable · grabbing · exhausting

curiosity

inquisitive

Eager to learn more

searching · exploring · investigative · insatiable · learning · intellectual · studious · absorbing · eager · thirsting

predator

wolfish

Resembling a wild canine

prowling · devouring · ferocious · savage · vulturine · stalking · pouncing · tearing · ripping · consuming

reader

bookworm

Voracious reader

consuming · literary · prolific · speed-reading · books · novels · literature · fiction · nonfiction · genres

ambition

driven

Intensely determined to achieve

aggressive · ruthless · climbing · aspiring · power-hungry · acquisitive · grasping · competitive · cutthroat · consuming

Categories
Opposites
appetite/consumption

voracioussatiated

Desire fully gratified

full · sated · satisfied · stuffed · glutted

eagerness/enthusiasm

voraciousapathetic

Without feeling or concern

indifferent · unenthusiastic · uninterested · disinterested · incurious

self-restraint/moderation

voraciousabstemious

Practicing restraint with indulgences

moderate · temperate · restrained · self-controlled · frugal

Phrases
Family

voraciously, voraciousness

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G