| Main Entry: | predatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eating, destroying for sustenance or without conscience |
Synonyms: |
bloodthirsty, carnivorous, depredatory, despoiling, greedy, hungry, hunting, marauding, pillaging, plundering, predacious, predative, preying, rapacious, raptorial, ravaging, ravening, thieving, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish |
| Main Entry: | acquisitive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eager to obtain knowledge or things |
Synonyms: |
avaricious, avid, covetous, demanding, desirous, grabbing, grabby, grasping, greedy, predatory, prehensile, rapacious |
| Main Entry: | avaricious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy |
Synonyms: |
covetous, gluttonous, hoarding, money-grubbing, pleonectic, predatory, rapacious, selfish, tight* |
| Main Entry: | carnivorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eating animal flesh |
Synonyms: |
cannibal, flesh-eating, hungry, omnivorous, predatory, rapacious |
Antonyms: |
vegetarian |
| Main Entry: | ferocious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | violent, barbaric |
Synonyms: |
barbarous, bloodthirsty, brutal, brutish, cruel, fell, feral, fierce, frightful, grim, implacable, inhuman, inhumane, lupine, merciless, murderous, pitiless, predatory, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, relentless, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, tigerish, truculent, unmerciful, unrestrained, untamed, vehement, vicious, voracious, wild, wolfish |
Antonyms: |
gentle, innocent, kind, mild, nonviolent, tame, tender |
| Main Entry: | rapacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | plundering |
Synonyms: |
avaricious, ferocious, furious, greedy, marauding, murderous, predatory, preying, ravening, ravenous, savage, voracious |
| Main Entry: | ravenous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hungry; desirous |
Synonyms: |
avaricious, could eat a horse, covetous, devouring, edacious, empty, famished, ferocious, gluttonous, grasping, greedy, insatiable, insatiate, omnivorous, predatory, rapacious, ravening, starved, starved to death, starving, voracious, wolfish |
Antonyms: |
full, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | thieving/thievish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | criminal |
Synonyms: |
crooked, cunning, dishonest, fraudulent, furtive, kleptomaniacal, larcenous, light-fingered, pilfering, piratic, plunderous, predatory, rapacious, secretive, sly, spoliative, stealthy, sticky-fingered |
Antonyms: |
benevolent, philanthropic |
| Main Entry: | thieving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | criminal |
Synonyms: |
crooked, cunning, dishonest, fraudulent, furtive, kleptomaniacal, larcenous, light-fingered, pilfering, piratic, plunderous, predatory, rapacious, secretive, sly, spoliative, stealthy, sticky-fingered, thievish |
Antonyms: |
benevolent, philanthropic |
| Main Entry: | omnivorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rapacious |
Synonyms: |
gluttonous, greedy, predatory, ravenous, voracious |