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Definition: Edacious |
EdaciousAdjective1. Devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Edacious \E*da"cious\, adjective. [Latin expression edax, edacis, from edere to eat.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: EdaciousSynonyms: esurient (adj), rapacious (adj), ravening (adj), ravenous (adj), voracious (adj), wolfish (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Gluttony | Adjective: gluttonous, greedy; gormandizing;Verb: edacious, omnivorous, crapulent, swinish. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "edacious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Makut (esurient, gluttonous, grasping, greedy, mingy, miser, open mouthed, pecker, piggish, rapacious, voracious), Brejtar. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Лаком, Свързан С ядене. (various references) | |
Czech | Žravý. (various references) | |
Hungarian | Falánk (esurient, gluttonous, gourmand, hoggish, piggish, piggy, ravening, ravenous, voracious). (various references) | |
Indonesian | rakus (greedy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | edaciousay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | esfomeado (esurient, hard set, hungry, ravenous, sharp-set, starveling), eczema (eczema, tetter), glutão (glutton, gluttonous, gobbler, gourmand, guttler, guzzler, hoggish, lickerish), faminto (belly-pinched, hard set, hollow, hungry, ravenous, starveling), ávido (acquisitive, appropriative, athirst, avid, eager, grasping, greedy, hard set, hungry, jejunum, lickerish, rapacious, ravenous, wishful, wistful). (various references) | |
Romanian | lacom (avid, covetous, craving, devouringly, esurient, glutton, gluttonous, greedy, hoggish, hungry, insatiable, lickerish, open mouthed, piggish, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wishful, wolfish), alimentar (alimentary, food, nutritive). (various references) | |
Russian | жадный (avaricious, avid, covetous, esurient, glutton, grasping, greedy, hoggish, insatiable, large-handed, locust, mingy, open mouthed, piggish, rapacious, ravenous, sharp-set, voracious), прожорливый (gluttonous, greedy, rapacious, voracious). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | proždrljiv (glutton, gluttonous, lupine, ravenous, voracious). (various references) | |
Spanish | voraz (esurient, ravenous, voracious). (various references) | |
Swedish | rovlysten (ferocious, predacious, rapacious, ravenous), rovgirig (predacious, rapacious, ravenous), glupsk (avid, glutenous, gluttonous, greedy, open mouthed, piggish, piggy, ravenous, voracious). (various references) | |
Turkish | yemekle ilgili (gastronomic, prandial), obur (cormorant, esurient, glutton, gluttonous, gormandizer, gourmand, greedy, guzzler, hog, lickerish, open mouthed, piggish, ravenous, voracious). (various references) | |
Ukranian | ненаситний (insatiable, insatiate), ненажерливий (gluttonous, gourmand, greedy, ravenous, voracious, wide-mouthed), жадібний (acquisitive, avaricious, avid, covetous, esurient, grasping, greedy, open mouthed, piggish, rapacious). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "edacious": predacious. (additional references) | |
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"Edacious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adacious, Eudocio, medacious. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "edacious" (pronounced 'E*da"cious'): Artificious, Astucious, Atrocious, Audacious, Auspicious, Autoecious, Avaricious, Bibacious, Capacious, Capricious, Cilicious, Contumacious, Convicious, Delicious, Dicacious, Disgracious, Efficacious, Extispicious, Fallacious, Feracious, Ferocious, fugacious, Fumacious, Furacious, Glacious, gracious, heteroecious, inauspicious, Incapacious, inefficacious, Ingracious, injudicious, Inofficious, judicious, Linguacious, loquacious, luscious, Malgracious, malicious, mendacious, Meracious, meretricious, minacious, Misgracious, monoecious, mordacious, Multiplicious, Multiscious, Obstetricious, Officious, Omniscious, Overluscious, Overofficious, Palacious, Perspicacious, Pertinacious, Pervicacious, Petrosilicious, Phenicious, Phoenicious, Precocious, Prenuncious, Procacious, Pugnacious, Rampacious, rapacious, Retecious, sagacious, salacious, Self-suspicious, semiprecious, Sequacious, Solacious, spacious, specious, suspicious, Synoecious, tenacious, Trioecious, Unauspicious, ungracious, Veracious, Vermicious, Vicious, Vivacious, Volacious, Voracious. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-o-s-u" | |
-1 letter: codeias. | |
-2 letters: adieus, audios, caused, codeia, cosied, escudo, sauced. | |
-3 letters: acids, adieu, adios, aides, asdic, aside, audio, cades, cadis, caids, cased, cause, cedis, codas, codes, coeds, cosie, coude, daces, decos, dices, disco, douce, douse, duces, eidos, ideas, saice, sauce, scudi, scudo, sodic. | |
-4 letters: aced, aces, acid, ados, aide, aids, asci, cade, cadi, cads, caid, case, cedi, ciao, coda, code, cods, coed, cuds, cued, cues, dace, dais, deco, dice, dies, disc, docs, does, dose, duce, duci, dues, duos, ecus, iced, ices, idea, ides, ocas, odea, odes, odic, ouds, sade, sadi, said, scad, scud, sice, side, soda, sued, udos, used. | |
-5 letters: ace, ado, ads, aid, ais, cad, cis, cod, cos, cud, cue, die, dis, doc, doe, dos, due, dui, duo, eau, ecu, eds, ice, ids, oca, ode, ods, oes, ose, oud, sac, sad, sae, sau, sea, sec, sei, sic, sod, sou, sue, udo, use. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-o-s-u" | |
+2 letters: discourage, educations, mendacious, obduracies, predacious. | |
+3 letters: colatitudes, decussation, discouraged, discourager, discourages, duodecimals, elucidators, glucosidase, inosculated, mustachioed, outdistance. | |
+4 letters: coadjutrices, coeducations, counterraids, decussations, diatomaceous, discountable, discouragers, educationese, educationist, elucidations, fecundations, glucosidases, judicatories, mendaciously, miseducation, nucleocapsid, nucleotidase, orchidaceous, outdistanced, outdistances, reeducations, subvocalized, unassociated, unsanctioned, unsocialized. | |
+5 letters: audaciousness, audiocassette, denunciations, disaccustomed, documentalist, documentaries, documentarist, educationeses, educationists, eudaemonistic, glucuronidase, medicamentous, miseducations, noneducations, nucleocapsids, nucleotidases, propaedeutics, pseudoclassic, quasiperiodic, radionuclides, unconstrained, undercoatings, undiscouraged, undissociated. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 64 61 63 69 6F 75 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100100 01100001 01100011 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E d a c i o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0064 0061 0063 0069 006F 0075 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3970676975818785 |
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