mindmap root((贪吃)) voracious applies especially to habitual gorging with what satisfies an appetite: teenagers are often ~ eaters. gluttonous applies to delight in eating or acquiring things especially beyond the point of necessity or satiety: an admiral who had a ~ appetite for glory. ravenous implies excessive hunger and suggests violent or grasping methods of dealing with whatever satisfies an appetite: football practice usually gives them ~ appetites. rapacious often suggests excessive and utterly selfish acquisitiveness or avarice: ~ land developers indifferent to the ruination of the environment.