rapacious Definition
ra·pa·cious (rə pā′s̸həs)
rapacious Related Forms
ra·pa′·ciously adverb
ra·pac′·ity (rə pas′ə tē) noun or ra·pa′·cious·ness
rapacious Synonyms
rapacious
modif.
Greedy
grasping, avaricious, insatiable; see sense 2; greedy 1, 2.Living on prey
ravening, ravenous, predatory, predacious, carnivorous, devouring, voracious, omnivorous, depredatory, extortionate, murderous, raptorial, vulturous, wolfish, lupine; see also greedy 2, savage 2.
rapacious Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- appetite: Ladybirds are a most welcome visitor to the garden, with their rapacious appetite for aphids.
- loan: Reveal and aware of the fact what you can do to let alone rapacious loan and credit dealers.
- power: The most powerful and rapacious imperial power in history is rampant.
- development: Rapacious development must not be allowed to infringe green spaces in the Calder valley.
- bank: The rapacious banks estimate precisely by mortgages the rate of increase of ruin of the peasants!
- beast: Is it the rapacious anti-union beast run by Americans that exploits workers as portrayed by the GMB union?
Modifying Another Word
- alone: Reveal and aware of the fact what you can do to let alone rapacious loan and credit dealers.
- sexually: Stella and Anita become sexually rapacious and the next morning Ken and Dave's bodies are discovered beside the now empty meteorite crater.

