rapaciousness
81yearning — n desire, longing, desideration, wish, wishing; hope, hoping, pining, sighing; hankering, Inf. yen, Sl. itch, Sl. itching; aspiration, emulation, ambition; fancy, fancying, coveting, covetousness, eagerness, ardor, craving; appetency, appetite,… …
82rapacious — UK [rəˈpeɪʃəs] / US adjective very formal never satisfied until you have taken everything that you can take Rapacious developers soon bought up the land. rapacious appetites Derived words: rapaciously adverb rapaciousness noun uncountable… …
83rapacious — /rəˈpeɪʃəs / (say ruh payshuhs) adjective 1. given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed. 2. inordinately greedy; predatory; extortionate: a rapacious disposition. 3. (of animals) subsisting by the capture of living prey; predacious …
84cupidity — [n] greed, strong desire acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, covetousness, craving, eagerness, graspingness, greediness, hunger, infatuation, itching*, longing, lust, passion, possessiveness, rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity,… …
85desire — [n1] want, longing admiration, ambition, appetite, ardor, aspiration, attraction, avidity, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, craze, cupidity, devotion, doting, eagerness, fancy, fascination, fervor, fondness, frenzy, greed, hankering*, hunger …
86rapacious — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ aggressively greedy. DERIVATIVES rapaciously adverb rapaciousness noun rapacity noun. ORIGIN from Latin rapax, from rapere to snatch …
87rapaciously — rapacious ► ADJECTIVE ▪ aggressively greedy. DERIVATIVES rapaciously adverb rapaciousness noun rapacity noun. ORIGIN from Latin rapax, from rapere to snatch …
88rapacity — rapacious ► ADJECTIVE ▪ aggressively greedy. DERIVATIVES rapaciously adverb rapaciousness noun rapacity noun. ORIGIN from Latin rapax, from rapere to snatch …
89rapacious — [rə pā′shəs] adj. [< L rapax (gen. rapacis) < rapere, to seize (see RAPE1) + OUS] 1. taking by force; plundering 2. greedy or grasping; voracious 3. living on captured prey; predatory rapaciously adv. rapacity [rə pas′ə …
90edacious — adjective devouring or craving food in great quantities edacious vultures a rapacious appetite ravenous as wolves voracious sharks • Syn: ↑esurient, ↑rapacious, ↑ravening, ↑ravenou …
