Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey:
— Ravening wolves.

synoniemen: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, vulturine, vulturous.

Roget 173: violent, vehement; warm; acute, sharp; rough, rude, ungentle, bluff, boisterous, wild; brusque, abrupt, waspish; impetuous; rampant.    turbulent; disorderly; blustering, raging etc. v.; troublous^†, riotous; tumultuary^†, tumultuous; obstreperous, uproarious; extravagant; unmitigated; ravening, inextinguishable, tameless; frenzied etc. (insane) 503.    desperate etc. (rash) 863; infuriate, furious, outrageous, frantic, hysteric, in hysterics.    fiery, flaming, scorching, hot, red-hot, ebullient.    savage, fierce, ferocious, fierce as a tiger.    excited etc. v.; unquelled^†, unquenched, unextinguished^†, unrepressed, unbridled, unruly; headstrong, ungovernable, unappeasable, immitigable, unmitigable^†; uncontrollable, incontrollable^†; insuppressible, irrepressible; orgastic, orgasmatic, orgasmic.    spasmodic, convulsive, explosive; detonating etc. v.; volcanic, meteoric; stormy etc. (wind) 349.    ... meer laten zien

Excessively greedy and grasping:
— Ravening creditors.

synoniemen: rapacious, voracious.

Devouring or craving food in great quantities.

synoniemen: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wolfish.

Roget 865: desirous; desiring etc. v.; inclined etc. (willing) 602; partial to; fain, wishful, optative^†; anxious, wistful, curious; at a loss for, sedulous, solicitous.    craving, hungry, sharp-set, peckish^†, ravening, with an empty stomach, esurient^†, lickerish^†, thirsty, athirst, parched with thirst, pinched with hunger, famished, dry, drouthy^†; hungry as a hunter, hungry as a hawk, hungry as a horse, hungry as a church mouse, hungry as a bear.    [excessively desirous] greedy etc. 817.1. unsatisfied, unsated, unslaked; unsaturated.    eager, avid, keen; burning, fervent, ardent; agog; all agog; breathless; impatient etc. (impetuous) 825; bent on, intent on, set on, bent upon, intent upon, set upon; mad after, enrage, rabid, dying for, devoured by desire.    aspiring, ambitious, vaulting, skyaspiring, high-reaching.    desirable; desired etc. v.; in demand; pleasing etc. (giving pleasure) 829; appetizing, appetible^†; tantalizing.    ... meer laten zien

Pools: łakomy, łasy