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rapacious

adjective

1 rapacious

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, ... show more

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

2 rapacious

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

synonyms: ravening, voracious.

3 rapacious

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, ... show more

Polish: łakomy, łasy


Moby thesaurus: Apician, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, all-engulfing, avaricious, avid, bloodsucking, bolting, bottomless, coveting, covetous, cramming, crapulent, crapulous, devouring, edacious, esurient, extortionate, ferocious ... show more.

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