edacious

eda·cious

adj \i-ˈdā-shəs\

Definition of EDACIOUS

1

archaic : of or relating to eating

2

: voracious

— edac·i·ty \-ˈda-sə-tē\ noun

Examples of EDACIOUS

1. <my edacious dining companion could always be counted on to order the largest—and often most expensive—item on the menu>

Origin of EDACIOUS

Latin edac-, edax, from edere to eat — more at eat

First Known Use: circa 1798

Related to EDACIOUS

Synonyms: voracious, esurient, gluttonous, greedy, hoggish, piggish, rapacious, ravenous, swinish

Related Words: hearty, wolfish; devouring, gobbling, gorging, gormandizing, gulping; insatiable, unquenchable, unslakable; empty, famished, hungry, peckish [chiefly British], starved, starving; malnourished, underfed, undernourished

Near Antonyms: content, full, glutted, sated, satiated, satisfied, stuffed

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Rhymes with EDACIOUS

audacious, bodacious, capacious, cetaceous, crustaceous, curvaceous, drupaceous, fallacious, flirtatious, fugacious, hellacious, herbaceous, loquacious, mendacious, micaceous, pomaceous, predaceous, pugnacious, rapacious, rosaceous, sagacious, salacious, sebaceous, sequacious, setaceous, tenacious, testaceous, tufaceous, ungracious, veracious, vinaceous, voracious