ravenousEnglishOxford American Thesaurusravenous adjective 1 I'm absolutely ravenous—I missed lunch: very hungry, starving, starved, famished; informal with one's stomach cleaving to one's backbone; rare sharp-set, esurient. ▷antonyms full. 2 her ravenous appetite: voracious, insatiable, ravening, wolfish; greedy, gluttonous, gannet-like; literary insatiate; rare edacious.