Word Meanings - RAPACIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. " The downfall of the rapacious and licentious Knights Templar." Motley. 2. Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence,; as, a

Additional info about word: RAPACIOUS

1. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. " The downfall of the rapacious and licentious Knights Templar." Motley. 2. Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence,; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird. 3. Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite. redeem thee from Death's rapacious claim Milton Syn. -- Greedy; grasping; ravenous; voracious. -- Ra*pa"cious*ly, adv. -- Ra*pa"cious*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RAPACIOUS)

• Covetous
• Acquisitive
• avaricious
• greedy
• grasping
• rapacious
• Predaceous
• Ravenous
• carnivorous
• Voracious
• hungry
• gluttonous
• omnivorous
• Hungry
• absorbent
• ravenous
• insatiate
• gormandizing

Related words: (words related to RAPACIOUS)

• CARNIVOROUS
  Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
• RAVENOUS
  1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. 2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- Rav"en*ous*ly, adv. -- Rav"en*ous*ness, n.
• HUNGRY
  1. Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire. 2. Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious. The cruel, hungry foam. C. Kingsley. Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
• GORMANDIZE
  To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton. Shak.
• GRASP
  1. To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of. Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff. Shak. 2. To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with;
• ACQUISITIVE
  1. Acquired. He died not in his acquisitive, but in his native soil. Wotton. 2. Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring; as, an acquisitive person or disposition.
• GREEDY-GUT
  A glutton. Todd.
• GLUTTONOUS
  Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age. -- Glut"ton*ous*ly, adv. -- Glut"ton*ous*ness, n.
• PREDACEOUS
  Living by prey; predatory. Derham.
• AVARICIOUS
  Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property. Syn. -- Greedy; stingy; rapacious; griping; sordid; close. -- Avaricious, Covetous, Parsimonious, Penurious, Miserly, Niggardly. The avaricious eagerly grasp after
• RAPACIOUS
  1. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. " The downfall of the rapacious and licentious Knights Templar." Motley. 2. Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence,; as, a
• GRASPER
  One who grasps or seizes; one who catches or holds.
• COVETOUSLY
  In a covetous manner.
• COVETOUS
  1. Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense. Covetous of wisdom and fair virtue. Shak. Covetous death bereaved us all, To aggrandize one funeral. Emerson. 2. Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess
• GORMANDIZER
  A greedy, voracious eater; a gormand; a glutton.
• OMNIVOROUS
  All-devouring; eating everything indiscriminately; as, omnivorous vanity; esp. , eating both animal and vegetable food. -- Om*niv"o*rous*ness, n.
• ABSORBENT
  Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive. Absorbent ground , a ground prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.
• INSATIATE
  Insatiable; as, insatiate thirst. The insatiate greediness of his desires. Shak. And still insatiate, thirsting still for blood. Hook.
• COVETOUSNESS
  1. Strong desire. When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness. Shak. 2. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad
• INSATIATELY
  Insatiably. Sir T. Herbert.
• OVERGREEDY
  Excessively greedy.