'Rapacious' definitions:
Definition of 'rapacious'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal" [syn: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous]
adjective
Excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments" [syn: rapacious, ravening, voracious]
adjective
Definition of 'Rapacious'
From: GCIDE
- Rapacious \Ra*pa"cious\ (r[.a]*p[=a]"sh[u^]s), a. [L. rapax, -acis, from rapere to seize and carry off, to snatch away. See Rapid.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. " The downfall of the rapacious and licentious Knights Templar." --Motley. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite. [1913 Webster]
- [Thy Lord] redeem thee quite from Death's rapacious claim --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Greedy; grasping; ravenous; voracious. [1913 Webster] -- {Ra*pa"cious*ly}, adv. -- {Ra*pa"cious*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'rapacious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a hog for,
- acquisitive,
- all-devouring,
- all-engulfing,
- Apician,
- avaricious,
- avid,
- bloodsucking,
- bolting,
- bottomless,
- coveting,
- covetous,
- cramming,
- crapulent,
- crapulous,
- devouring,
- edacious,
- esurient,
- extortionate,
- ferocious,
- fierce,
- glutting,
- gluttonizing,
- gluttonous,
- gobbling,
- gorging,
- grabby,
- grasping,
- greedy,
- gulping,
- guttling,
- guzzling,
- hoggish,
- hyperphagic,
- insatiable,
- insatiate,
- intemperate,
- limitless,
- lupine,
- mercenary,
- miserly,
- money-hungry,
- money-mad,
- omnivorous,
- overgreedy,
- parasitic,
- piggish,
- polyphagic,
- predacious,
- predatory,
- quenchless,
- raptorial,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- sharkish,
- slakeless,
- sordid,
- stuffing,
- swinish,
- unappeasable,
- unappeased,
- unquenchable,
- unsated,
- unsatisfied,
- unslakeable,
- unslaked,
- usurious,
- venal,
- voracious,
- vulturine,
- vulturous,
- wolfing,
- wolfish