Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey:
— The rapacious wolf.

synonyms: predatory, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous.

Roget 819: parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, niggardly, close; fast handed, close handed, strait handed; close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted; tight, sparing; chary; grudging, griping etc. v.; illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious.    ... show more

Roget 789: taking etc. v.; privative^†, prehensile; predaceous, predal^†, predatory, predatorial^†; lupine, rapacious, raptorial; ravenous; parasitic.    bereft etc. 776.    ... show more

Excessively greedy and grasping:
— A rapacious divorcee on the prowl.

synonyms: ravening, voracious.

Devouring or craving food in great quantities:
— A rapacious appetite.

synonyms: edacious, esurient, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish.

Roget 817a: greedy, avaricious, covetous, acquisitive, grasping; rapacious; lickerish^†.    greedy as a hog; overeager; voracious; ravenous, ravenous as a wolf; openmouthed, extortionate, exacting, sordid^†, alieni appetens [Lat.]; insatiable, insatiate; unquenchable, quenchless; omnivorous.    ... show more

Polish: łakomy, łasy