rapacious
6 10 2008Adjectives
1. (adj.) predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous;
- 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”;
2. (adj.) rapacious, ravening, voracious;
- excessively greedy and grasping;
- “a rapacious divorcee on the prowl”; “ravening creditors”; “paying taxes to voracious governments”;
3. (adj.) edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish;
- devouring or craving food in great quantities;
- “edacious vultures”; “a rapacious appetite”; “ravenous as wolves”; “voracious sharks”;
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