Rapacious

What do we mean by rapacious?

Having or showing a strong or excessive desire to acquire money or possess things; greedy. adjective

Living by killing prey, especially in large numbers. adjective

Taking things by force; plundering. adjective

Of a grasping habit or disposition; given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed, or obtaining wrongfully or by extortion; predatory; extortionate: as, a rapacious usurer; specifically, of animals, subsisting by capture of living prey; raptorial; predaceous: as, rapacious birds or fishes.

Of a grasping nature or character; characterized by rapacity; immoderately exacting; extortionate: as, a rapacious disposition; rapacious demands.

Synonyms Rapacious, Ravenous, Voracious. Rapacious, literally disposed to seize, may note, as the others do not, a distinctive characteristic of certain classes of animals; the tiger is a rapacious animal, but often not ravenous or voracious. Ravenous implies hunger of an extreme sort, shown in eagerness to eat. Voracious means that one eats or is disposed to eat a great deal, without reference to the degree of hunger: a glutton is voracious. Samuel Johnson tended to be a voracious eater, because in his early life he had often gone hungry till be was ravenous.

Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. adjective

Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence adjective

Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious adjective

Voracious; avaricious. adjective

Given to taking by force or plundering. adjective

Subsisting off live prey. adjective

Excessively greedy and grasping adjective

Devouring or craving food in great quantities adjective

Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey adjective

Voracious; avaricious.

Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy.

(of an animal, usually a bird) Subsisting off live prey.

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Words that are spelled similarly to rapacious:
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Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word rapacious:
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Words that rhyme with rapacious:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe rapacious:
proud.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective rapacious:
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