rapacious | Definition of rapacious

Synonyms and Antonyms of rapacious

1 having a huge appetite

nothing livens things up like a whole team of rapacious basketball players descending upon the pizza parlor

Synonyms of rapacious

edacious, esurient, gluttonous, greedy, hoggish, piggish, ravenous, swinish, voracious

Words Related to rapacious

hearty, wolfish

devouring, gobbling, gorging, gormandizing, gulping

insatiable, unquenchable, unslakable

empty, famished, hungry, peckish [chiefly British], starved, starving

malnourished, underfed, undernourished

Near Antonyms of rapacious

content, full, glutted, sated, satiated, satisfied, stuffed

2 living by killing and eating other animals

rapacious mammals, such as coyotes, foxes, and bobcats

Synonyms of rapacious

predaceous (or predacious), predatory, raptorial

Words Related to rapacious

aggressive, deadly, ferocious, fierce, savage, violent

Near Antonyms of rapacious

herbivorous, vegetarian

gentle, submissive, tame

3 having or marked by an eager and often selfish desire especially for material possessions

rapacious plunderers who despoiled the tombs in the ancient pyramids

Synonyms of rapacious

acquisitive, avaricious, avid, coveting, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, mercenary, moneygrubbing

Words Related to rapacious

commercialistic, materialistic, philistine

desirous, eager, itchy, lickerish, miserly

hoggish, piggish, piggy, swinish

devouring, gluttonous, gobbling, insatiable, ravenous, unquenchable, voracious

egocentric, egoistic (also egoistical), egotistic (or egotistical), self-centered, self-seeking

discontent, discontented, malcontent, unsatisfied

begrudging, grudging, resentful

Near Antonyms of rapacious

nonmaterialistic

altruistic, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, freehanded, generous, greathearted, handsome, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, openhanded, openhearted, selfless, unselfish, unsparing

controlled, moderate, restrained, temperate

content, sated, satisfied