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

1. adjective. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force.
2. adjective. Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird.
3. adjective. Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite.
4. adjective. devouring or craving food in great quantities

   "edacious vultures"

   "a rapacious appetite"

   Synonyms: edacious, esurient, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish

5. adjective. excessively greedy and grasping

   "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"

   "ravening creditors"

   Synonyms: ravening, voracious

6. adjective. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey

   "a predatory bird"

   "the rapacious wolf"

   Synonyms: predatory, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous

Synonyms

edacious, esurient, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish, predatory, raptorial, vulturine, vulturous

Common word forms

rapaciously, rapaciousness

Words from these letters

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