edacious
eda·cious
adj \i-ˈdā-shəs\Definition of EDACIOUS
Examples of EDACIOUS
- <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
Related Words: hearty, wolfish; devouring, gobbling, gorging, gormandizing, gulping; insatiable, unquenchable, unslakable; empty, famished, hungry, peckish [chiefly British], starved, starving; malnourished, underfed, undernourished
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
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