esurient
Plural: esurients
Adjective Satellite
- extremely hungry
- "fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy"
- (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous
- "the esurient eyes of an avid curiosity"
- devouring or craving food in great quantities
Adj
- Very greedy or hungry; ravenous; (figuratively) avid, eager.
Noun
- One who is greedy or hungry.
Adjective
- Hungry or greedy, especially for food or power.
Examples
- His ESURIENT desire for high scores often led him to take risky plays.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ēsurient, ēsurientem, from ēsuriēns (“hungering”), present participle of ēsuriō (“to be hungry, to hunger for something”), a desiderative verb from edō (“to eat”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁édti (“to eat”)) + -turiō (suffix indicating a desire for an action).
Synonyms
avid, devouring, edacious, famished, greedy, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, sharp-set, starved, voracious, wolfish, cormorant, esurient, gluttonous, gutfoundered, hungry as a hog, insatiable, lupine, pantagruelian
Scrabble Score: 8
esurient: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordesurient: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
esurient: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary