edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish
(adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities; “edacious vultures”; “a rapacious appetite”; “ravenous as wolves”; “voracious sharks”
rapacious, ravening, voracious
(adjective) excessively greedy and grasping; “a rapacious divorcee on the prowl”; “ravening creditors”; “paying taxes to voracious governments”
predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous
(adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; “a predatory bird”; “the rapacious wolf”; “raptorial birds”; “ravening wolves”; “a vulturine taste for offal”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
rapacious (comparative more rapacious, superlative most rapacious)
Voracious; avaricious.
Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy.
(of an animal, usually a bird) Subsisting off live prey.
• The use of this term for animals other than birds is dated.
• See also greedy
Source: Wiktionary
Rapa"cious, a. Etym: [L. rapax, -acis, from rapere to seize and carry off, to snatch away. See Rapid.]
1. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. " The downfall of the rapacious and licentious Knights Templar." Motley.
2. Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence,; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird.
3. Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite. [Thy Lord] redeem thee from Death's rapacious claim Milton .
Syn.
– Greedy; grasping; ravenous; voracious.
– Ra*pa"cious*ly, adv.
– Ra*pa"cious*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
21 February 2025
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The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
