RAPACIOUS as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • devouring or craving food in great quantities
   
   Synonym(s)
   • edacious (what does edacious mean?)
   • esurient (what does esurient mean?)
   • ravening (what does ravening mean?)
   • ravenous (what does ravenous mean?)
   • voracious (what does voracious mean?)
   • wolfish (what does wolfish mean?)
   
   Usage Example(s)
   • edacious vultures
   • a rapacious appetite
   • ravenous as wolves
   • voracious sharks
   
   Similar To
   • gluttonous (what does gluttonous mean?)
2. Meaning
   • excessively greedy and grasping
   
   Synonym(s)
   • ravening (what does ravening mean?)
   • voracious (what does voracious mean?)
   
   Usage Example(s)
   • a rapacious divorcee on the prowl
   • ravening creditors
   • paying taxes to voracious governments
   
   Similar To
   • acquisitive (what does acquisitive mean?)
3. Meaning
   • living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
   
   Synonym(s)
   • predatory (what does predatory mean?)
   • raptorial (what does raptorial mean?)
   • ravening (what does ravening mean?)
   • vulturine (what does vulturine mean?)
   • vulturous (what does vulturous mean?)
   
   Usage Example(s)
   • a predatory bird
   • the rapacious wolf
   • raptorial birds
   • ravening wolves
   • a vulturine taste for offal
   
   Similar To
   • aggressive (what does aggressive mean?)