esurient

adjective

i-ˈsu̇r-ē-ənt How to pronounce esurient (audio)
Definition of esurientnext
as in greedy
having a huge appetite the deli is frequented by young, single professionals, esurient after those long hours spent staring at the monitor of a computer

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  1. greedy
  2. ravenous
  3. gluttonous
  4. voracious
  5. hungry
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  • His skin, a greedy shade of brown, seems to eat up all the light.
    Essence, Essence, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Like Kato and Sunja’s margarita date last week, this is another small moment that moves as much, if not more, than any of the larger emotional gestures in the show — some pleasures are immune to misery’s greedy hands.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of greedy
Adjective
  • Scherzinger’s ravenous performance provides a great part of the adrenaline, but the show is also jolted into new life by the collision of the spartan Lloydiverse with all the plush and purple of Lloyd Webber’s score.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Oil and gas providers, meanwhile, loom ever present in the background, more than willing to fire up their plants to satiate AI’s ravenous energy appetite.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 4 Sep. 2024
Definition of ravenous
Adjective
  • For his part, Handel—a generally agreeable though fiercely proud man, witty and gluttonous and gouty, and given to polylingual swearing—was probably indifferent to such political and sectarian matters.
    Jan Swafford, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
  • During the Mid-Autumn Festival, or Moon Festival, celebrated by Chinese around the world on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month each year (September 17 this year), mooncakes are eaten in gluttonous quantities.
    Michelle Tchea, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024
Definition of gluttonous
Adjective
  • Exciting news for Elsa, who has won my heart with her voracious appetite — Nino schmoozes with the editor, Enrico.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Plus, one of the most voracious algae-eaters, the long-spined black sea urchin, began dying in the Caribbean in the 1980s, likely from a waterborne pathogen.
    Benji Jones, Vox, 8 Oct. 2024
Definition of voracious
Adjective
  • If a bat returns to the roost hungry, others may regurgitate a blood meal to get them through the night.
    Sebastian Stockmaier, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
  • But the devout young Lewis, who famously preached to the chickens on his family’s land, was hungry to become educated and to involve himself in the civil rights struggle.
    Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of hungry
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“Esurient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/esurient. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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