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rapacious
Synonyms and Antonyms of rapacious
1
having a huge appetite
devouring, gobbling, gorging, gormandizing, gulping
insatiable, unquenchable, unslakable
empty, famished, hungry, peckish [chiefly British], starved, starving
2
living by killing and eating other animals
predaceous (or predacious), predatory, raptorial
3
having or marked by an eager and often selfish desire especially for material possessions
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
Synonym Discussion of rapacious
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- teenagers are often voracious eaters
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- an admiral who was gluttonous for glory
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- a nation with a ravenous lust for territorial expansion
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- rapacious developers indifferent to environmental concerns
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