| 单词 | edacious |
| 释义 | edacious (once / 437753 pages) adj Watching your edacious uncle at an all-you-can-eat buffet would be an alarming experience, since edacious means eating huge amounts of food ravenously. If you go all day without eating, you're bound to be edacious by dinner time. Although sometimes the adjective edacious is used to simply mean "related to eating," it more usually implies a gluttonous devouring of food. The root word is the Latin edax, "voracious or gluttonous," which comes from edere, "to eat." WORD FAMILYedacity: edacious USAGE EXAMPLESThe stars proceeded in their courses, Nature with her subversive forces, Time, too, the iron-toothed and sinewed; And the edacious years continued. Stevenson, Robert Louis, The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson...(2010) And that he became audacious, edacious, and loquacious, is evident from such wit and flippancy as he here likes to display. Rihani, Ameen Fares, The Book of Khalid(2010) I reminded my talented young parishioner and friend that Concord Bridge had long since yielded to the edacious tooth of Time. Lowell, James Russell, The Complete Poetical Works of Jame...(2010) adj devouring or craving food in great quantities edacious vultures Syn esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish gluttonous given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink |
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