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Adjective ravening has 3 senses
- predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous - living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal"
Antonyms: unaggressive, nonaggressive (indirect, via aggressive)
- rapacious, ravening, voracious - excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments"
Antonym: unacquisitive (indirect, via acquisitive)
- edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish - devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks"
Antonym: abstemious (indirect, via gluttonous)
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