31 May 2013

voracious

[vaw-rey-shuhs, voh-, vuh-]

adjective

1. craving or consuming large quantities of food: a voracious appetite.
2. exceedingly eager or avid: voracious readers; a voracious collector.

Origin:
1625–35; voraci(ty) + -ous

Related forms
vo·ra·cious·ly, adverb
vo·ra·cious·ness, noun
un·vo·ra·cious, adjective
un·vo·ra·cious·ly, adverb
un·vo·ra·cious·ness, noun

Can be confused: veracious, vociferous, voracious.

Synonyms
1. See ravenous. 2. rapacious, insatiable.

Today’s aphorism

‘You only have power over people as long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power … he’s free again’.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

On this day

31 May 1948 – birth of John Bonham, Led Zeppelin drummer. Died 25 September 1980.