rapacious

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

• living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
  • "the rapacious wolf"
• excessively greedy and grasping
  • "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"
• devouring or craving food in great quantities
  • "a rapacious appetite"

Adj

• Voracious; avaricious.
• Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy.
• Subsisting off live prey.

Synonyms

acquisitive, avaricious, cormorant, covetous, edacious, esurient, grasping, greedy, miserable, miserly, piggish, predacious, predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, ravenous, selfish, sharp-set, sordid, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish

Related Words

rapaciously, rapaciousness, rapacity