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omnivorous

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore O words

eating both plants and animals, or consuming everything available with great eagerness

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Omnivorous in a sentence

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She was an omnivorous reader who devoured novels, textbooks, and newspapers alike.

Synonyms
wide-rangingvoraciousall-consumingindiscriminate
Antonyms
selectiveherbivorouscarnivorous

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The novelist's late style is admired precisely for its blank: every superfluous phrase has been pared away, leaving prose of startling economy.

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Omnivorous (adjective) means eating both plants and animals, or consuming everything available with great eagerness
Here is omnivorous used in an example sentence: "She was an omnivorous reader who devoured novels, textbooks, and newspapers alike."
Common synonyms for omnivorous include wide-ranging, voracious, all-consuming, indiscriminate.
Antonyms of omnivorous include selective, herbivorous, carnivorous.
Omnivorous is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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