rapacious
Adjective Satellite
- living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
- "the rapacious wolf"
- excessively greedy and grasping
- "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"
- devouring or craving food in great quantities
- "a rapacious appetite"
Adj
- Voracious; avaricious.
- Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy.
- Subsisting off live prey.
Origin / Etymology
Perhaps from rapacity + -ous, in any case ultimately from Latin rapāx (“grasping, greedy”).
Synonyms
edacious, esurient, predatory, raptorial, ravening, ravenous, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish, acquisitive, avaricious, cormorant, covetous, grasping, greedy, miserable, miserly, piggish, predacious, rapacious, selfish, sharp-set, sordid
Scrabble Score: 13
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