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| Main Entry: | rapacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | plundering |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, ferocious, furious, greedy, murderous, predatory, preying, ravenous, savage, voracious, marauding, ravening |
| Main Entry: | acquisitive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eager to obtain knowledge or things |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, avid, covetous, demanding, desirous, grasping, greedy, predatory, rapacious, grabbing, grabby, prehensile |
| Main Entry: | avaricious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy |
| Synonyms: | covetous, gluttonous, predatory, rapacious, selfish, tight*, hoarding, money-grubbing, pleonectic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | avid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | ardent, avaricious, breathless, covetous, desirous, devoted, eager, fanatical, fervent, grasping, greedy, hungry, impatient, insatiable, intense, keen, passionate, rapacious, ravenous, thirsty, voracious, zealous, athirst, dying to, gotta have |
| Antonyms: | dispassionate, indifferent, unenthusiastic |
| Main Entry: | carnivorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eating animal flesh |
| Synonyms: | cannibal, hungry, omnivorous, predatory, rapacious, flesh-eating |
| Antonyms: | vegetarian |
| Main Entry: | covetous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy; very desirous |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, avid, eager, envious, gluttonous, grasping, green-eyed*, itchy*, jealous, keen, mercenary, rapacious, ravenous, selfish, voracious, yearning, close-fisted, ensurient, grabby, grudging, hogging, piggish, prehensile, swinish |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, generous, giving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ferocious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | violent, barbaric |
| Synonyms: | barbarous, bloodthirsty, brutal, cruel, fell, feral, fierce, frightful, grim, implacable, inhuman, lupine, merciless, murderous, pitiless, predatory, rapacious, ravenous, relentless, ruthless, savage, truculent, unmerciful, unrestrained, untamed, vehement, vicious, voracious, wild, brutish, inhumane, ravening, sanguinary, tigerish, wolfish |
| Antonyms: | gentle, innocent, kind, mild, nonviolent, tame, tender |
| Main Entry: | gluttonous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | voracious |
| Synonyms: | covetous, devouring, greedy, gross, insatiable, omnivorous, prodigious, rapacious, ravenous, starved, starving, edacious, gorging, gourmandizing, hoggish, never full, piggish, piggy, ravening, sating, unquenchable, wolfish |
| Main Entry: | grasping |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, avid, covetous, desirous, extortionate, itchy*, mean, miserly, penny-pinching*, penurious, rapacious, selfish, stingy*, tightfisted*, venal, close-fisted, extorting, grabby, niggardly, prehensile, usurious |
| Antonyms: | generous, unselfish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | greedy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | desiring excessively |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, avid, carnivorous, close, covetous, craving, desirous, devouring, eager, gluttonous, grasping, hungry, impatient, insatiable, intemperate, itchy*, miserly, omnivorous, parsimonious, penurious, rapacious, ravenous, selfish, stingy, tight*, voracious, close-fisted, edacious, esurient, gobbling, gormandizing, grabby, grudging, gulping, guzzling, hoggish, insatiate, niggardly, pennypinching, piggish, prehensile, ravening, swinish, tight-fisted |
| Antonyms: | abstemious, benevolent, charitable, extravagant, generous, liberal, philanthropic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hungry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | starving; desirous |
| Synonyms: | avid, carnivorous, covetous, craving, eager, empty, famished, greedy, hankering, hollow, keen, omnivorous, rapacious, ravenous, starved, unfilled, unsatisfied, voracious, yearning, athirst, could eat a horse, edacious, esurient, famishing, flying light, got the munchies, hoggish, hungered, insatiate, on empty stomach, piggish |
| Antonyms: | full, replete, satisfied, stuffed, satiated |
| Main Entry: | insatiable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | voracious, wanting |
| Synonyms: | clamorous, crying, demanding, desiring, exigent, gluttonous, greedy, importunate, insistent, intemperate, pressing, rapacious, ravenous, unsatisfied, urgent, yearning, insatiate, quenchless, unappeasable, unquenchable, unsatisfiable |
| Antonyms: | fulfilled, full, pleased, satisfied, satiable |
| Main Entry: | predatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eating, destroying for sustenance or without conscience |
| Synonyms: | bloodthirsty, carnivorous, greedy, hungry, hunting, preying, rapacious, thieving, voracious, depredatory, despoiling, marauding, pillaging, plundering, predacious, predative, raptorial, ravaging, ravening, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish |
| Main Entry: | ravenous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hungry; desirous |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, covetous, devouring, empty, famished, ferocious, gluttonous, grasping, greedy, insatiable, omnivorous, predatory, rapacious, starved, starving, voracious, could eat a horse, edacious, insatiate, ravening, starved to death, wolfish |
| Antonyms: | full, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | stingy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | penny-pinching, averse to spending money |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, chary, cheap, chintzy*, churlish, close, covetous, economical, extortionate, frugal, grasping, greedy, ignoble, illiberal, mean, miserly, narrow, near, parsimonious, penurious, petty, rapacious, saving, selfish, sordid, sparing, thrifty, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous, close-fisted, costive, curmudgeonly, grudging, ironfisted, pennywise, pinchpenny, scrimping, scurvy, skimping, ungiving |
| Antonyms: | generous, spendthrift, wasteful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thieving/thievish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | criminal |
| Synonyms: | crooked, cunning, dishonest, fraudulent, furtive, predatory, rapacious, secretive, sly, stealthy, kleptomaniacal, larcenous, light-fingered, pilfering, piratic, plunderous, spoliative, sticky-fingered |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, philanthropic |
| Main Entry: | voracious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hungry, greedy |
| Synonyms: | avid, covetous, devouring, empty, gluttonous, grasping, gross, insatiable, omnivorous, prodigious, rapacious, ravenous, starved, starving, uncontrolled, dog-hungry, edacious, gorging, piggy, ravening, sating, starved to death, unquenchable |
| Antonyms: | satisfied, quenched |
| Main Entry: | thieving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | criminal |
| Synonyms: | crooked, cunning, dishonest, fraudulent, furtive, predatory, rapacious, secretive, sly, stealthy, kleptomaniacal, larcenous, light-fingered, pilfering, piratic, plunderous, spoliative, sticky-fingered, thievish |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, philanthropic |
| Main Entry: | aggressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | belligerent, hostile |
| Synonyms: | antipathetic, barbaric, bellicose, combative, contentious, destructive, disruptive, disturbing, intrusive, martial, militant, offensive, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rapacious, threatening, warlike, advancing, assailing, attacking, encroaching, hawkish, intruding, invading |
| Antonyms: | calm, laid-back, easy-going |
| Main Entry: | mean |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ungenerous |
| Synonyms: | close, greedy, mercenary, miserly, parsimonious, penny-pinching*, penurious, rapacious, selfish, stingy, tight, mingy, niggard, scrimpy, tight-fisted |
| Notes: | the median is the halfway point, dividing a series of numbers in half - while a mean is the average of the sum of the series |
| Antonyms: | generous, kind, unselfish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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