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esurient

1 antonym for esurient — opposites grouped by meaning.

Adj — Extremely hungry or greedy; keenly eager for something.

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Borrowed from Latin ēsurient, ēsurientem, from ēsuriēns (“hungering”), the present participle of ēsuriō (“to be hungry, to hunger for something”). This is a desiderative verb built from edō (“to eat”) (which ultimately traces to Proto-Indo-European *h₁édti (“to eat”)) plus -turiō (a suffix showing a desire for an actio...

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