Definition for Ravening:

• excessively greedy and grasping; " a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; " ravening creditors"; " paying taxes to voracious governments"

Synonyms for Ravening:

• adj.

  •famished (adjective)
  • hollow,
  • empty,
  • starved.
  •ferocious (adjective)
  • grim,
  • barbarous,
  • merciless,
  • ruthless,
  • vicious,
  • implacable,
  • bloodthirsty,
  • fierce,
  • inhuman,
  • wild,
  • sanguinary,
  • pitiless,
  • frightful,
  • vehement,
  • unrestrained,
  • lupine,
  • feral,
  • murderous,
  • unmerciful,
  • truculent,
  • fell,
  • brutal,
  • untamed,
  • relentless,
  • cruel.
  •gluttonous (adjective)
  • hoggish,
  • omnivorous,
  • Gorging,
  • unquenchable,
  • devouring,
  • gourmandizing,
  • prodigious,
  • covetous,
  • never full,
  • Sating,
  • gross,
  • piggy.
  •greedy (adjective)
  • grabby,
  • grudging,
  • avid,
  • gulping,
  • guzzling,
  • craving,
  • desirous,
  • parsimonious,
  • grasping,
  • close-fisted,
  • Gormandizing,
  • selfish,
  • Gobbling,
  • stingy,
  • penurious,
  • eager,
  • tight,
  • carnivorous,
  • miserly,
  • close,
  • avaricious,
  • itchy,
  • impatient,
  • intemperate.
  •predatory (adjective)
  • thieving,
  • predative,
  • hunting,
  • Depredatory.
  •savage (adjective)
  • destructive,
  • devilish,
  • cold-blooded,
  • diabolical,
  • harsh,
  • violent,
  • unrelenting,
  • infernal,
  • beastly,
  • crazed,
  • rabid,
  • malicious,
  • sadistic,
  • heartless,
  • bloody,
  • atrocious,
  • malevolent,
  • remorseless.
  •unappeasable (adjective)
  • un appeasable,
  • un-appeasable.

• n.

  •
  • on an empty stomach,
  • starving,
  • peckish,
  • hunger,
  • starvation,
  • water,
  • famine,
  • appetite,
  • hungry.
  •acquisitive (noun)
  • acquisitive.
  •aggressive (noun)
  • aggressive.

• v.

  •glut (verb)
  • overwhelm,
  • make a pig of,
  • gorge,
  • wolf,
  • cram,
  • cloy,
  • devour,
  • fill,
  • load,
  • clog,
  • burden,
  • hog,
  • overstock,
  • pall,
  • saturate,
  • overload,
  • deluge,
  • raven,
  • flood,
  • inundate,
  • sate,
  • surfeit,
  • pack,
  • congest,
  • jade,
  • satiate,
  • feast,
  • overfeed,
  • stuff.

• Other synonyms:

  •ravenous
  • parasitical.
  •Other relevant words:
  • greed,
  • rifling,
  • follow,
  • bite,
  • smite,
  • frenzied,
  • thirsty,
  • insensate,
  • hyena,
  • Desiring,
  • hysteric,
  • raving,
  • swallow,
  • rash,
  • receive,
  • anxious,
  • overgreedy,
  • in hysterics,
  • fiercely,
  • irrationally,
  • assimilate,
  • chaotic,
  • speaker,
  • utterer,
  • troublous,
  • ransacking,
  • mindless,
  • fain,
  • parasitic,
  • fanatically,
  • looting,
  • enjoy,
  • frantically,
  • avarice,
  • maniac,
  • seizing,
  • sedulous,
  • blacking,
  • disorderly,
  • turbulent,
  • fasting,
  • greediness,
  • Corbelling,
  • jetting,
  • madcap,
  • obstreperous,
  • madly,
  • farrowing,
  • outrageous,
  • extortion,
  • plundering,
  • suffer,
  • cormorant,
  • frantic,
  • Quaffing,
  • limitless,
  • savagely,
  • violently,
  • angrily,
  • bottomless,
  • Pigging,
  • hyaena,
  • pillaging,
  • money-hungry,
  • anarchic,
  • uncontrolled,
  • get,
  • gourmand,
  • rip-roaring,
  • raveling,
  • ravingly,
  • sharp-set,
  • wishful,
  • blustering,
  • Lickerish,
  • downing,
  • solicitous,
  • sordid,
  • Fiendish,
  • blackmail,
  • predacious,
  • rave,
  • unsated,
  • athirst,
  • apply,
  • unfilled,
  • endure,
  • openmouthed,
  • tempestuous,
  • Raved,
  • deliriously,
  • Drouthy,
  • foraging,
  • raging,
  • inextinguishable,
  • unmitigated,
  • madman,
  • tumultuous,
  • neckcloth,
  • exaction,
  • Sooting,
  • ravaging,
  • uproarious,
  • eat,
  • inclined,
  • usurious,
  • Robbing,
  • raiding,
  • wistful,
  • Tumultuary,
  • cantilevering,
  • insane,
  • furiously,
  • unsatisfied,
  • wildly,
  • Pirating,
  • eliminate,
  • gulp down,
  • bestial,
  • venal,
  • orgasmic,
  • curious,
  • buzzard,
  • fearful,
  • seize,
  • Liquorish,
  • Tameless,
  • optative,
  • distractedly,
  • angry,
  • scarf,
  • uncontrollable,
  • dry,
  • raping,
  • desperate,
  • rapacity,
  • carry off,
  • verbaliser,
  • Harrying,
  • improve,
  • raver,
  • engross,
  • enormous,
  • absorb,
  • Despoiling,
  • marauding,
  • furious,
  • rapaciousness,
  • riotous,
  • predating,
  • infuriate,
  • mad,
  • Inking,
  • Storming,
  • occupy,
  • hysterically,
  • partial to,
  • extortionate,
  • cupidity,
  • mercenary,
  • hellish,
  • swigging,
  • insanely,
  • talker,
  • encroach,
  • willing,
  • Preying,
  • Rooking,
  • wolflike,
  • stormy,
  • consuming.

Antonyms for Ravening:

• adj.

  • famished
    sated, satisfied, full, satiated.
  • ferocious
    giving, calm, sympathetic, tender, mild, kind, nonviolent, nice, innocent, gentle, pleasant, tame, merciful, compassionate, considerate.
  • greedy
    charitable, philanthropic, generous, abstemious, liberal, extravagant, benevolent.
  • savage
    domesticated, polite, humane, benign, peaceful, easy, civilized.
  • voracious
    quenched.

• p. pr. & vb. n.

  • Other antonyms:
    unacquisitive, nonaggressive, unaggressive.

• v.

  • glut
    diet, abstain, repress, underwhelm, moderate, fast, reduce, open, dissatisfy, deprive, relieve, suppress, help, aid, deplete.

Ravening Sentence Examples:

• Fain would I know thee safe and well, though lost 85 To us: fain therefore send thee hence, in peace To seek thy father, not seek single fights In vain: - but who can keep the lion's cub From ravening?

• But come who may, And come he peaceful or in ravening wrath Spurred on his path, 'twere best, in any case, Damsels, to cling unto this altar - mound Made sacred to their gods of festival, - A shrine is stronger than a tower to save, A shield that none may cleave.

Homophones for Ravening:

• refining, rabbinic, reviving, ripping, rubens, refinish, raffinose, reaping hook, repining, rappahannock, robbins, ripeness, refinance, rubbing, roping, revenge, raving, ribbing, ropiness, roofing, ravenous, rap music, roving, ripening, raphanus.