Definitions for rapacious

rapacious ra·pa·cious

Spelling: [ruh-pey-shuh s]
IPA: /rəˈpeɪ ʃəs/

Rapacious is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 469 anagrams from letters in rapacious (aacioprsu).

Definitions for rapacious

adjective

  1. given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
  2. inordinately greedy; predatory; extortionate:
  3. (of animals) subsisting by the capture of living prey; predacious.

Origin of rapacious

1645-55; Latin rapāci- (stem of rapāx greedy, akin to rapere to seize; see rape1) + -ous

Examples for rapacious

Mayberry had no banks, however, as squalid and rapacious as mine.

What to the rapacious landlord is the widow's last mite but a Fast-Fish?

These early rehearsal scenes see Simmons go for the jugular, verbally undressing his students with rapacious license.

In the time of nidification the most feeble birds will assault the most rapacious.

Assailing her at every turn has been her rapacious political rival, Tony Abbott.

Which brings us to the elephant in the room—the rapacious advance of online bookselling, personified by Amazon.

This his rapacious miserable master had the meanness to take from him.

Every window was open, and from within came sounds of rapacious cleaning.

And like the medical profession and the food industry, New York has been spoiled by rapacious profit-mongers and hypercapitalists.

On the other hand, the officials were inquisitorial and rapacious.

Word Value for rapacious
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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