Word Meanings - OMNIVOROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
All-devouring; eating everything indiscriminately; as, omnivorous vanity; esp. , eating both animal and vegetable food. -- Om*niv"o*rous*ness, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OMNIVOROUS)
- Insatiable
- Voracious
- unappeasable
- omnivorous
- ravenous
- rapacious greedy
- Ravenous
- hungry
- gluttonous
- rapacious
- Hungry
- absorbent
- insatiate
- gormandizing
Related words: (words related to OMNIVOROUS)
- RAVENOUS
1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. 2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- Rav"en*ous*ly, adv. -- Rav"en*ous*ness, n. - HUNGRY
1. Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire. 2. Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious. The cruel, hungry foam. C. Kingsley. Cassius has a lean and hungry look. - GORMANDIZE
To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton. Shak. - INSATIABLENESS
Greediness of appetite that can not be satisfied or appeased; insatiability. The eye of the covetous hath a more particular insatiableness. Bp. Hall. - GREEDY-GUT
A glutton. Todd. - GLUTTONOUS
Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age. -- Glut"ton*ous*ly, adv. -- Glut"ton*ous*ness, n. - RAPACIOUS
1. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. " The downfall of the rapacious and licentious Knights Templar." Motley. 2. Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence,; as, a - INSATIABLE
Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire. "Insatiable of glory." Milton. - GORMANDIZER
A greedy, voracious eater; a gormand; a glutton. - OMNIVOROUS
All-devouring; eating everything indiscriminately; as, omnivorous vanity; esp. , eating both animal and vegetable food. -- Om*niv"o*rous*ness, n. - ABSORBENT
Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive. Absorbent ground , a ground prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors. - INSATIATE
Insatiable; as, insatiate thirst. The insatiate greediness of his desires. Shak. And still insatiate, thirsting still for blood. Hook. - INSATIATELY
Insatiably. Sir T. Herbert. - INSATIATENESS
The state of being insatiate. - GREEDY
gredi, AS. grdig, grdig; akin to D. gretig, OS. grdag, OHG. grtag, Dan. graadig, OSw. gradig, grdig, Icel. graugr, Goth. grdags greedy, 1. Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; -- followed by of; as, a lion - VORACIOUS
Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool. Dampier. -- Vo*ra"cious*ly, adv. -- Vo*ra"cious*ness, n. - OVERGREEDY
Excessively greedy. - INTRAVENOUS
Within the veins.