英语词汇“voracity”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Use the noun voracity when you're describing someone's enormous, gluttonous appetite.

Some people eat a little and others eat a lot. The ones who eat an extreme amount have the quality of voracity — basically, it means overeating. Sometimes this word refers to literally eating too much, and other times it refers to the desire to overeat. Anyone might eat a couple of hot dogs, but only someone with voracity could eat ten or eleven in one sitting. At the root of voracity is the Latin word vorare, which means "to devour."

CHOOSE YOUR WORDS

veracious / voracious

Voracious describes someone super hungry, like a zombie or a wolf. A voracious appetite makes you want to eat a whole cake. Veracious (with an "e") means truthful, as in a veracious first president who cannot tell a lie.

Voracious is spelled with an "o" for an open mouth or the hole in your stomach you're trying to fill if you have a voracious appetite. It's used to describe appetites, but not always for food — a voracious reader devours books by reading one after the other. Here are some unrelenting examples:

The fish are such voracious eaters that they have crowded out other species and disrupted ecosystems. — Wall Street Journal

A voracious reader, he became a self-educated art historian and a well-informed generalist whose knowledge awed his friends, including well-known artists. — New York Times

The more formal word veracious comes from the Latin root verus for "truth." You might recognize that root in words like verify "to show something's true," or verisimilitude for "seeming true to life." Veracious means truthful, so a veracious author, for example, is one who tells the truth. Here are more examples:

This interesting, although not very veracious author, gives the following account of the process. — J.G. Millingen

I ought to have bought up all sorts of memories, and written the most veracious novel the world has seen. — Israel Zangwill

If you had to hang out with either a voracious person or a veracious one, choose the veracious, or truthful, one. The voracious one would definitely eat all of your French fries, and your brains if you hang out with zombies.

WORD FAMILY

voracity: voracious, voracities+/voracious: voraciously, voraciousness

USAGE EXAMPLES

“Increase your camping voracity gradually,” Gaslin suggests, even if that means starting in your own backyard and progressing to a local park.

US News(Jun 06, 2016)

The Silver mob pours in, searching through the stalls with the voracity of wolves.

Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen(2015)

“We’re not going to comment on specific intelligence allegations or the voracity of leaked documents,” he said.

Washington Times(Jul 02, 2015)

1n extreme gluttony

Syn|Hyper

edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness

gluttony

habitual eating to excess

2n excessive desire to eat

Syn|Hyper

edacity, esurience, ravenousness, voraciousness

hunger, hungriness

a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation

单词	voracity
释义	voracity (once / 3016 pages) n Use the noun voracity when you're describing someone's enormous, gluttonous appetite. Some people eat a little and others eat a lot. The ones who eat an extreme amount have the quality of voracity — basically, it means overeating. Sometimes this word refers to literally eating too much, and other times it refers to the desire to overeat. Anyone might eat a couple of hot dogs, but only someone with voracity could eat ten or eleven in one sitting. At the root of voracity is the Latin word vorare, which means "to devour." CHOOSE YOUR WORDS veracious / voracious Voracious describes someone super hungry, like a zombie or a wolf. A voracious appetite makes you want to eat a whole cake. Veracious (with an "e") means truthful, as in a veracious first president who cannot tell a lie. Voracious is spelled with an "o" for an open mouth or the hole in your stomach you're trying to fill if you have a voracious appetite. It's used to describe appetites, but not always for food — a voracious reader devours books by reading one after the other. Here are some unrelenting examples: The fish are such voracious eaters that they have crowded out other species and disrupted ecosystems. — Wall Street Journal A voracious reader, he became a self-educated art historian and a well-informed generalist whose knowledge awed his friends, including well-known artists. — New York Times The more formal word veracious comes from the Latin root verus for "truth." You might recognize that root in words like verify "to show something's true," or verisimilitude for "seeming true to life." Veracious means truthful, so a veracious author, for example, is one who tells the truth. Here are more examples: This interesting, although not very veracious author, gives the following account of the process. — J.G. Millingen I ought to have bought up all sorts of memories, and written the most veracious novel the world has seen. — Israel Zangwill If you had to hang out with either a voracious person or a veracious one, choose the veracious, or truthful, one. The voracious one would definitely eat all of your French fries, and your brains if you hang out with zombies. WORD FAMILY voracity: voracious, voracities+/voracious: voraciously, voraciousness USAGE EXAMPLES “Increase your camping voracity gradually,” Gaslin suggests, even if that means starting in your own backyard and progressing to a local park. US News(Jun 06, 2016) The Silver mob pours in, searching through the stalls with the voracity of wolves. Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen(2015) “We’re not going to comment on specific intelligence allegations or the voracity of leaked documents,” he said. Washington Times(Jul 02, 2015) 1n extreme gluttony Syn\|Hyper edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness gluttony habitual eating to excess 2n excessive desire to eat Syn\|Hyper edacity, esurience, ravenousness, voraciousness hunger, hungriness a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation
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