- 1eating or wanting large amounts of food synonym greedy a voracious eater to have a voracious appetite
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- 2wanting a lot of new information and knowledge synonym avid a voracious reader a boy with a voracious and undiscriminating appetite for facts
adverb Some animals feed voraciously in summer and hibernate in winter. Ever since her childhood she had read voraciously.
NAmE//vəˈræsət̮i//
noun [uncountable]See voracious in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: voracious