Dictionary Entry
rapacious
rapacious is a 9-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force.
- 2adjective
Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird.
- 3adjective
Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite.
- 4adjective
devouring or craving food in great quantities
"edacious vultures"
"a rapacious appetite"
- 5adjective
excessively greedy and grasping
"a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"
"ravening creditors"
- 6adjective
living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
"a predatory bird"
"the rapacious wolf"
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