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rapacious
[ ruh-pey-shuhs ]
adjective
- given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- inordinately greedy; predatory; extortionate:
a rapacious disposition.
Synonyms: grasping, voracious, ravenous
Antonyms: generous
- (of animals) subsisting by the capture of living prey; predacious.
rapacious
/ rəˈpæsɪtɪ; rəˈpeɪʃəs /
adjective
- practising pillage or rapine
- greedy or grasping
- (of animals, esp birds) subsisting by catching living prey
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Derived Forms
- rapacity, noun
- raˈpaciously, adverb
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Other Words From
- ra·pa·cious·ly adverb
- ra·pac·i·ty [r, uh, -, pas, -i-tee], ra·pa·cious·ness noun
- un·ra·pa·cious adjective
- un·ra·pa·cious·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rapacious1
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Origin of rapacious1
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Example Sentences
The wheeling-dealing sometimes goes too far—or at least offends someone more rapacious.
Which brings us to the elephant in the room—the rapacious advance of online bookselling, personified by Amazon.
A couple of factors, both internal and environmental, are at play when such rapacious violence spreads like a brushfire.
Does the idea of watching a doe-eyed woman wolf down rapacious amounts of food make you mad with desire?
These early rehearsal scenes see Simmons go for the jugular, verbally undressing his students with rapacious license.
And they have been found co-operating against a particular rapacious Mahajan.
In the time of nidification the most feeble birds will assault the most rapacious.
Take a fair and noble mistress, one younger, less rapacious.
He had to urge the Council to stay the Commissioners at Sherborne, whose rapacious activity had again awoke.
Bishoprics, once conferred for wisdom and piety, had become prizes for the rapacious and ambitious.
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