Definitions for rapacious

Definitions for (adj) rapacious

Main entry: edacious, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, esurient, wolfish, voracious

Definition: devouring or craving food in great quantities

Usage: edacious vultures; a rapacious appetite; ravenous as wolves; voracious sharks


Main entry: rapacious, ravening, voracious

Definition: excessively greedy and grasping

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


Main entry: vulturine, vulturous, predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening

Definition: living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey

Usage: a predatory bird; the rapacious wolf; raptorial birds; ravening wolves; a vulturine taste for offal


Visual thesaurus for rapacious