Rapacious Definition

rə-pāshəs
adjective
Having or showing a strong or excessive desire to acquire money or possess things; greedy.
American Heritage
Greedy or grasping; voracious.
Webster's New World
Taking by force; plundering.
Webster's New World
Living on captured prey; predatory.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Rapacious

  • From Latin rapāx rapāc- from rapere to seize rep- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Perhaps from rapacity + -ous, in any case ultimately from Latin rapax (“grasping, greedy").

    From Wiktionary

Rapacious Sentence Examples

  • His rapacious hunger built as his fangs began their descent.

  • However cruel and rapacious the Vikings may have been, the work of disorder and ruin was not all theirs.

  • But she appears to have been passionate, exceedingly rapacious and ever careful of her own interest.

  • He had posed as the defender of the public rights of Europe and won to his side the smaller powers and much of the public opinion of Europe, while the allies were beginning to be regarded more in the light of rapacious conquerors than as disinterested defenders of the liberties of Europe.

  • These rapacious bugs can produce up to two generations in a season in some areas.

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