Esurient

Quick meaning: Esurient is an adjective meaning (formal, now often humorous) Very greedy or hungry; ravenous; (figuratively) avid, eager.

Meaning

(formal, now often humorous) Very greedy or hungry; ravenous; (figuratively) avid, eager.

More Meanings

1. One who is greedy or hungry.

Example Sentences

That girl with her back to us who waits / For her man to come home for his tea / Will wait until the paint disintegrates / And ruined dikes admit the esurient sea; […]

I answered that such freedom would be worse than the vilest slavery, for it would leave me free to do nothing but grappel till death with clusterfist creditors and esurient Kirkists; […]

Sure it is that he [Philip Nye] was a moſt dangerous and ſeditious Perſon, a politick Pulpit driver of Independency, an inſatiable eſurient after riches, and what not to raiſe a family and to heap up wealth.

So that (as I apprehend) theſe Famelick, Eſurient, and Sitient Spirits are not the Ferments product of Concoction in the Ventricle, but only incentives, ordained by nature to render us deſirous of Aliment, to repair the decaying frame of our Body.

Word Forms

• esurients

Synonyms for esurient

Depending on context, synonyms include cormorant, edacious, gluttonous, gutfoundered, insatiable, lupine.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sharp-set, hungry, famished, ravening, rapacious, edacious.

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