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RAPACIOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Devouring or craving food in great quantities
Example:
voracious sharks
Synonyms:
edacious; esurient; rapacious; ravening; ravenous; voracious; wolfish
Classified under:
Similar:
gluttonous (given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink)
Derivation:
rapaciousness; rapacity (extreme gluttony)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Excessively greedy and grasping
Example:
paying taxes to voracious governments
Synonyms:
rapacious; ravening; voracious
Classified under:
Similar:
acquisitive (eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas)
Derivation:
rapacity (reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins))
Sense 3
Meaning:
Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
Example:
a vulturine taste for offal
Synonyms:
predatory; rapacious; raptorial; ravening; vulturine; vulturous
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
aggressive (having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends)
