different between voracious vs satiate

English

Etymology

From Latin vor?x, from vor? (“I devour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v????e?.??s/, /v???e?.??s/
• Rhymes: -e???s

Adjective

voracious (comparative more voracious, superlative most voracious)

1. Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, ch. 6:

     I never had so much as . . . one wish to God to direct me whither I should go, or to keep me from the danger which apparently surrounded me, as well from voracious creatures as cruel savages.

   • 1867, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, ch. 45:

     The old man was up, betimes, next morning, and waited impatiently for the appearance of his new associate, who after a delay that seemed interminable, at length presented himself, and commenced a voracious assault on the breakfast.

   • 1910, Jack London, "The Human Drift":

     Retreating before stronger breeds, hungry and voracious, the Eskimo has drifted to the inhospitable polar regions.

2. Having a great appetite for anything.
   • 1922, Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion, ch. 7:

     If he carried chiefly his appetite, a zeal for tiled bathrooms, a conviction that the Pullman car is the acme of human comfort, and a belief that it is proper to tip waiters, taxicab drivers, and barbers, but under no circumstances station agents and ushers, then his Odyssey will be replete with good meals and bad meals, bathing adventures, compartment-train escapades, and voracious demands for money.

   • 2005, Nathan Thornburgh, "The Invasion of the Chinese Cyberspies," Time, 29 Aug.:

     Methodical and voracious, these hackers wanted all the files they could find.

Synonyms

• (devouring great quantities of food): See Thesaurus:voracious
• (having a great appetite for anything): See Thesaurus:greedy

Derived terms

Related terms

• voracity

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin satiatus, past participle of satiare (“to fill full, satiate”), from sat + satis (“sufficient”) + satur (“full”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se???e?t/

Verb

satiate (third-person singular simple present satiates, present participle satiating, simple past and past participle satiated)

1. (transitive) To fill to satisfaction; to satisfy.

   Nothing seemed to satiate her desire for knowledge.

2. (transitive) To satisfy to excess. To fill to satiety.

Usage notes

Used interchangeably with, and more common than, sate.

Synonyms

• sate

Derived terms

• satiated

Translations

Adjective

satiate (comparative more satiate, superlative most satiate)

1. Filled to satisfaction or to excess.

Related terms

• sate
• satiation
• satiety
• satisfaction
• satisfactory
• satisfy

References

Further reading

• satiate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• satiate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• satiate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latin

Verb

sati?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of sati?

Participle

sati?te

1. vocative masculine singular of sati?tus

References

• satiate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press