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rapacious
adjective
(ra-pa-cious)
devouring or craving food in great quantities
Synonyms:
edacious
,
esurient
,
ravening
,
ravenous
,
voracious
,
wolfish
,
Examples:
A rapacious appetite.
rapacious
adjective
(ra-pa-cious)
excessively greedy and grasping
Synonyms:
ravening
,
voracious
,
Examples:
A rapacious divorcee on the prowl.
rapacious
adjective
(ra-pa-cious)
living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
Synonyms:
predatory
,
raptorial
,
ravening
,
vulturine
,
vulturous
,
Examples:
The rapacious wolf.
Words Related to
rapacious
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predatory
,
ravenous
,
ravening
,
gluttonous
,
voracious
,
wolfish
,
vulturous
,
raptorial
,
acquisitive
,
aggressive
,
edacious
,
esurient
,
vulturine
,
greedy
,
avaricious
,
venal
,
conscienceless
,
ruthless
,
tyrannical
,
bloodthirsty
,
amoral
,
parasitical
,
unscrupulous
,
covetous
,
heartless
,
insatiable
,
profligate
,
exploitative
,
vengeful
,
despotic
,
malevolent
,
murderous
,
plutocratic
,
loathsome
,
capitalist
,
tyrannous
,
wanton
,
brutish
,
unprincipled
,
capitalistic
,
villainous
,
exploitive
,
remorseless
,
feckless
,
dastardly
,
thieving
,
imperialistic
,
coldhearted
,
overgreedy
,
bloodsucking
,
pernicious
,
larcenous
,
evil
,
maleficent
,
iniquitous
,
verminous
,
freebooting
,
egotistic
,
cannibalistic
,
pinheaded
,
perfidious
,
vulturish
,
megalomanic
,
overweening
,
multiheaded
,
succubi
,
oligarchic
,
heedless
,
subjugated
,
spineless
,
soulless
,
oligarchical
,
moneyed
,
carnivoracity
,
monomaniacal
,
malfeasant
,
benevolent
,
servile
,
hardhearted
,
uncaring
,
egoistical
,
paternalistic
,
insidious
,
acquiescent
,
thuggish
,
sociopathic
,
propertied
,
benighted
,
swinish
,
lumpen
,
doltish
,
predacious
,
shameless
,
plunderous
,
traitorous
,
corrupt
,
devious
,
unthinking
,
rentier
,
warmongering
,
rapacious
Examples by Brain Bank Users
By: Jamie
From:
Words in the News - December 2018
Many of Trump’s supporters are only aware of China’s rapacious side and think all they want is to take all American companies and jobs.