Definition of esurient Esurient
e•su•ri•ent
We found 9 definitions of esurient from 4 different sources.
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| esurient - devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks" | ||
| edacious, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish | ||
| gluttonous given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink; "over-fed women and their gluttonous husbands"; "a gluttonous debauch"; "a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure" | ||
| esurient - extremely hungry; "they were tired and famished for food and sleep"; "a ravenous boy"; "the family was starved and ragged"; "fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy" | ||
| famished, ravenous, sharp-set, starved | ||
| hungry feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food; "a world full of hungry people" | ||
| esurient - (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous; "avid for adventure"; "an avid ambition to succeed"; "fierce devouring affection"; "the esurient eyes of an avid curiosity"; "greedy for fame" | ||
| avid, devouring, greedy | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- esurient (a.)
Inclined to eat; hungry; voracious. - esurient (n.)
One who is hungry or greedy.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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esurient
es-ū′ri-ent, adj. hungry: penurious.—n. Esū′rience, hunger: neediness. [L. esuriens, -entis, pr.p. of esurīre, to be hungry—edĕre, to eat.]
