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rapacious
Synonyms and Antonyms of rapacious
- nothing livens things up like a whole team of rapacious basketball players descending upon the pizza parlor
devouring, gobbling, gorging, gormandizing, gulping
insatiable, unquenchable, unslakable
empty, famished, hungry, peckish [chiefly British], starved, starving
- rapacious mammals, such as coyotes, foxes, and bobcats
predaceous (or predacious), predatory, raptorial
- rapacious plunderers who despoiled the tombs in the ancient pyramids
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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