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The definition of rapacious is to want more money or possessions than needed.

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An example of a rapacious person is someone who constantly tries to get more money or real estate.

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See rapacious in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

taking by force; plundering
greedy or grasping; voracious
living on captured prey; predatory

Origin: < L rapax (gen. rapacis) < rapere, to seize (see rape) + -ous

Related Forms:

rapaciously adverb
rapacity noun or rapaciousness

See rapacious in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Taking by force; plundering.
Greedy; ravenous. See Synonyms at voracious.
Subsisting on live prey.

Origin:

Origin: From Latin rapāx, rapāc-

Origin: , from rapere, to seize; see rep- in Indo-European roots

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Related Forms:

ra·paˈcious·ly adverb

ra·pacˈi·ty (rə-păsˈĭ-tē), ra·paˈcious·ness noun

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