RAVENOUS Meaning of RAVENOUS in English adj.1 very hungry, famished. 2 (of hunger, eagerness, etc., or of an animal) voracious. 3 rapacious. Derivatives: ravenously adv. ravenousness n. Etymology: ME f. OF ravineus (as RAVEN(2)) Oxford English vocab. Оксфордский английский словарь. 2012