Rapacious

Adjective

 * 1) Voracious; avaricious.
 * 2) * 1787, Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 6: Concerning Dangers from Dissensions Between the States:
 * To presume a want of motives for such contests [of power between states] as an argument against their existence, would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.
 * 1) Given to taking by force or plundering.
 * 2) * 1910, Niccolò Machiavelli (translated by Ninian Hill Thomson), The Prince, Chapter XIX:
 * A Prince [...] sooner becomes hated by being rapacious and by interfering with the property and with the women of his subjects, than in any other way.
 * 1)  Subsisting off of live prey.
 * 2) * 1827, James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie, Chapter XIII:
 * Even the rapacious birds appeared to comprehend the nature of the ceremony, for [...] they once more began to make their airy circuits above the place [...]

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:greedy

Related terms

 * rapaciously
 * rapaciousness
 * rapacity

Adverbs for Rapacious
furtively; terribly; wickedly; scandalously; outrageously; shamefully; greedily; ravenously; insatiably; rabidly; ungovernably; uncontrollably; madly; monstrously; abominably; detestably; peculiarly; astonishingly; unbelievably; uncommonly.

Thesaurus
Apician, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, all-engulfing, avaricious, avid, bloodsucking, bolting, bottomless, coveting, covetous, cramming, crapulent, crapulous, devouring, edacious, esurient, extortionate, ferocious, fierce, glutting, gluttonizing, gluttonous, gobbling, gorging, grabby, grasping, greedy, gulping, guttling, guzzling, hoggish, hyperphagic, insatiable, insatiate, intemperate, limitless, lupine, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, omnivorous, overgreedy, parasitic, piggish, polyphagic, predacious, predatory, quenchless, raptorial, ravening, ravenous, sharkish, slakeless, sordid, stuffing, swinish, unappeasable, unappeased, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, usurious, venal, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfing, wolfish

Etymology
Perhaps from rapacity: + -ous:, in any case ultimately from rapax:.

Translations

 * Finnish: ahne, saaliinhimoinen
 * French:
 * Portuguese: voraz


 * Serbo-Croatian: gramziv, pohlepan, lakom
 * Spanish:


 * Spanish:


 * Serbo-Croatian: grabežljiv


 * Spanish: