edacious

[ ih-dey-shuhs ]

adjective

1. devouring; voracious; consuming.

edacious

/ ɪˈdæsɪtɪ; ɪˈdeɪʃəs /

adjective

1. humorous.
   devoted to eating; voracious; greedy

Derived Forms

• eˈdaciously, adverb
• edacity, noun

Other Words From

• une·dacious adjective
• une·dacious·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of edacious¹

First recorded in 1810–20; edaci(ty) + -ous

Word History and Origins

Origin of edacious¹

C19: from Latin edāx voracious, from edere to eat

Example Sentences

The stars proceeded in their courses, Nature with her subversive forces, Time, too, the iron-toothed and sinewed; And the edacious years continued.

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And that he became audacious, edacious, and loquacious, is evident from such wit and flippancy as he here likes to display.

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After this Hugo, not contented with the tragedy of the edacious murderer, gives us seven pages of his favourite rhetoric in saccadé paragraphs on the general question.

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Occasionally the road must be set back, and once the lighthouse was moved back from the cliffs, eaten away by the edacious tooth of the sea.

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Augustus, the physically strong, is no more; transcendent king of edacious flunkies, father of 354 children, but not without fine qualities; and Poland has to find a new king.

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