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adj. Taking by force; plundering.

adj. Greedy; ravenous. See Synonyms at voracious.

adj. Subsisting on live prey.

adj. Voracious; avaricious.

adj. Given to taking by force or plundering.

adj. Subsisting off live prey.

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

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

adj. Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious

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.

adj. excessively greedy and grasping

adj. devouring or craving food in great quantities

adj. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey

"The ruins of the resort are now covered in rapacious island vegetation creeping in from the jungle."

acquisitive    gluttonous    aggressive   

rapaciously    rapaciousness    rapacity   

ravenous    grasping    greedy    voracious    avaricious    extortionate    predacious   

Cretaceous    cretaceous    pugnacious   

avaricious    greedy    voracious    lawless    tyrannical    unprincipled    ravenous    predatory    heartless    vindictive