Synonyms for rapacious
rəˈpeɪ ʃəsra·pa·cious

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1. rapacious

   Avaricious and covetous refer especially to acquisition, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, and penurious to expenditure. The avaricious man has an eager craving for money, and ordinarily desires both to get and to keep, the covetous man to get something away from its possessor; tho one may be made avaricious by the pressure of great expenditures. Miserly and niggardly persons seek to gain by mean and petty savings; the miserly by stinting themselves, the niggardly by stinting others. Parsimonious and penurious may apply to one's outlay either for himself or for others; in the latter use, they are somewhat less harsh and reproachful terms than niggardly. The close man holds like a vise all that he gets. Near and nigh are provincial words of similar import. The rapacious have the robber instinct, and put it in practise in some form, as far as they dare. The avaricious and rapacious are ready to reach out for gain; the parsimonious, miserly, and niggardly prefer the safer and less adventurous way of avoiding expenditure. Greedy and stingy are used not only of money, but often of other things, as food, etc. The greedy child wishes to enjoy everything himself; the stingy child, to keep others from getting it.

   Synonyms:
   avaricious, close, covetous, greedy, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, sordid, stingy

   Antonyms:
   bountiful, free, generous, liberal, munificent, prodigal, wasteful

   Preposition:
   The monarch was avaricious of power.

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1. rapacious

   Synonyms:
   greedy, ravenous, voracious, predaceous, avaricious, grasping, extortionate

   Antonyms:
   bountiful, liberal, contented, frugal

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1. predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturousadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   wolfish, marauding, vulturine, predacious, raptorial, esurient, ravening, ravenous, voracious, edacious, predaceous, predatory, raiding, vulturous

   Antonyms:
   unacquisitive, abstemious, nonaggressive, unaggressive

2. rapacious, ravening, voraciousadjective

   excessively greedy and grasping

   "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments"

   Synonyms:
   wolfish, vulturine, raptorial, esurient, ravenous, voracious, edacious, predatory, ravening, vulturous

   Antonyms:
   unaggressive, nonaggressive, unacquisitive, abstemious

3. edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfishadjective

   devouring or craving food in great quantities

   "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks"

   Synonyms:
   esurient, wolflike, starved, famished, vulturous, sharp-set, greedy, raptorial, predatory, edacious, voracious, ravenous, wolfish, avid, devouring(a), ravening, vulturine

   Antonyms:
   abstemious, nonaggressive, unaggressive, unacquisitive

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1. rapaciousadjective

   Synonyms:
   raptorial, preying

2. rapaciousadjective

   Synonyms:
   ravenous, greedy, voracious, insatiable, insatiate

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1. rapaciousadjective

   Synonyms:
   predatory, predaceous, ravenous, avaricious, grasping, extortionate, voracious

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1. List of paraphrases for "rapacious":

   voracious, greedy, ravenous

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How to use rapacious in a sentence?

1. Clark Ballew:

   We felt like paid sick time off was an important omissionand not an especially rapacious ask, because of the 60 vote threshold in the Senate, we also know who likely cast a token vote in our favor yesterday because they knew they were insolated from its passage. There was buffer room there for certain politicians who have never supportedour cause before to get a ‘freebie’ there, but railroaders are not dumb. We see that kind of deception everyday from our bosses on the railroad; we don't fall for that.

2. Niccolo Machiavelli:

   War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.