| Main Entry: | rapacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | plundering |
Synonyms: |
avaricious, ferocious, furious, greedy, marauding, murderous, predatory, preying, ravening, ravenous, savage, voracious |
| 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: | aggressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | belligerent, hostile |
Synonyms: |
advancing, antipathetic, assailing, attacking, barbaric, bellicose, combative, contentious, destructive, disruptive, disturbing, encroaching, hawkish, intruding, intrusive, invading, martial, militant, offensive, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rapacious, threatening, warlike |
Antonyms: |
calm, easy-going, laid-back |
| Main Entry: | avaricious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy |
Synonyms: |
covetous, gluttonous, hoarding, money-grubbing, pleonectic, predatory, rapacious, selfish, tight* |
| Main Entry: | avid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enthusiastic |
Synonyms: |
ardent, athirst, avaricious, breathless, covetous, desirous, devoted, dying to, eager, fanatical, fervent, gotta have, grasping, greedy, hungry, impatient, insatiable, intense, keen, passionate, rapacious, ravenous, thirsty, voracious, zealous |
Antonyms: |
dispassionate, indifferent, unenthusiastic |
| Main Entry: | carnivorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eating animal flesh |
Synonyms: |
cannibal, flesh-eating, hungry, omnivorous, predatory, rapacious |
Antonyms: |
vegetarian |
| Main Entry: | covetous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy; very desirous |
Synonyms: |
acquisitive, avaricious, avid, close-fisted, eager, ensurient, envious, gluttonous, grabby, grasping, green-eyed, grudging, hogging, itchy, jealous, keen, mercenary, piggish, prehensile, rapacious, ravenous, selfish, swinish, voracious, yearning |
Antonyms: |
benevolent, generous, giving |
| 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: | gluttonous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | voracious |
Synonyms: |
covetous, devouring, edacious, gorging, gourmandizing, greedy, gross, hoggish, insatiable, never full, omnivorous, piggish, piggy, prodigious, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, sating, starved, starving, unquenchable, wolfish |
| Main Entry: | grasping |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy |
Synonyms: |
acquisitive, avaricious, avid, close-fisted, covetous, desirous, extorting, extortionate, grabby, itchy, mean, miserly, niggardly, penny-pinching, penurious, prehensile, rapacious, selfish, stingy*, tightfisted, usurious, venal |
Antonyms: |
generous, unselfish |