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rapaciousadjective having a huge appetitenothing livens things up like a whole team of rapacious basketball players descending upon the pizza parlor edacious, esurient, gluttonous, greedy, hoggish, piggish, ravenous, swinish, voracious hearty, wolfishdevouring, gobbling, gorging, gormandizing, gulpinginsatiable, unquenchable, unslakableempty, famished, hungry, peckish(chiefly British), starved, starvingmalnourished, underfed, undernourished content, full, glutted, sated, satiated, satisfied, stuffed living by killing and eating other animalsrapacious mammals, such as coyotes, foxes, and bobcats predaceous(or predacious), predatory, raptorial carnivorousaggressive, deadly, ferocious, fierce, savage, violentuntamed, wild herbivorous, vegetariangentle, submissive, tame having or marked by an eager and often selfish desire especially for material possessionsrapacious plunderers who despoiled the tombs in the ancient pyramids acquisitive, avaricious, avid, coveting, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, mercenary, moneygrubbing commercialistic, materialistic, philistinedesirous, eager, itchy, lickerish, miserlyhoggish, piggish, piggy, swinishdevouring, gluttonous, gobbling, insatiable, ravenous, unquenchable, voraciousegocentric, egoistic(also egoistical), egotistic(or egotistical), self-centered, self-seekingdiscontent, discontented, malcontent, unsatisfiedbegrudging, grudging, resentful nonmaterialisticaltruistic, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, freehanded, generous, greathearted, handsome, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, openhanded, openhearted, selfless, unselfish, unsparingcontrolled, moderate, restrained, temperatecontent, sated, satisfied voracious, gluttonous, ravenous, rapacious mean excessively greedy.voracious applies especially to habitual gorging with food or drink.teenagers are often voracious eaters gluttonous applies to one who delights in eating or acquiring things especially beyond the point of necessity or satiety.an admiral who was gluttonous for glory ravenous implies excessive hunger and suggests violent or grasping methods of dealing with food or with whatever satisfies an appetite.a nation with a ravenous lust for territorial expansion rapacious often suggests excessive and utterly selfish acquisitiveness or avarice.rapacious developers indifferent to environmental concerns in 1651 |