edacious

Questions about edacious

What does edacious mean?

edacious means "devouring or craving food in great quantities".

How many syllables are in edacious?

edacious has 4 syllables and divides as e-da-ci-ous under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for edacious?

Close synonyms include esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is edacious a common word?

edacious is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.