Gluttonous
Gluttonous adjective - Having a huge appetite.
Usage example: gluttonous customers had practically emptied the all-you-can-eat buffet
Hungry and gluttonous are semantically related in ravenous topic. In some cases you can use "Hungry" instead an adjective "Gluttonous".
Hungry
Hungry adjective - Feeling a desire or need for food.
Usage example: John was still hungry after eating only a muffin for breakfast
Gluttonous and hungry are semantically related in ravenous topic. Sometimes you can use "Gluttonous" instead an adjective "Hungry".
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Gluttonous Pig: Gub-Gub, who's always hungry and wanting to eat.
Source: Literature / Doctor Dolittle - Played to disturbing effect in a 1937 cartoon short Pigs Is Pigs, in which a greedy piglet, as implied punishment for being so gluttonous that he makes his family go hungry some nights without remorse, is strapped into a machine and force-fed until his stomach distends grotesquely.
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