rapacious

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adjective

1. devouring or craving food in great quantities
- edacious vultures
- a rapacious appetite
- ravenous as wolves
- voracious sharks
• Syn:
edacious, esurient, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish
• Similar to:
gluttonous
• Derivationally related forms:
voraciousness (for: voracious), voracity (for: voracious), ravenousness (for: ravenous), rapaciousness, rapacity, esurience (for: esurient), edacity (for: edacious)
2. 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, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous
• Similar to:
aggressive
• Derivationally related forms:
vulture (for: vulturous), raptor (for: raptorial)
3. excessively greedy and grasping
- a rapacious divorcee on the prowl
- ravening creditors
- paying taxes to voracious governments
• Syn:
ravening, voracious
• Similar to:
acquisitive
• Derivationally related forms:
voraciousness (for: voracious), rapacity

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  edacious, esurient, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish, predatory, raptorial, vulturine, vulturous