a. | 1. | |
1. | Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. | |
2. | Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; | |
3. | Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; |
Adj. | 1. | rapacious - living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal" |
2. | rapacious - excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments" | |
3. | rapacious - devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks" |