- Types Of Speech
- You can use rapacious as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Rapacious
- A 3 syllables adjective satellite and 9 letters with the letters a, c, i, o, p, r, s, and u, 4 consonants, 5 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letter c. Rapacious starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters r, ra, rap, rapa, rapac, and the ending characters are s, us, ous, ious, cious, ..
- Definition
- Devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks"
- Origin/Roots
- Latin
- School Grade
- Rapacious is set as a sat word that starts with r, ends with s, 3 syllables, 5 vowels and 9 letters.
- Pig Latin
- Rapacious in Pig Latin is said as "apaciousray or apaciousrway".
- Unigram
- r | a | p | a | c | i | o | u | s
- Bigram
- ra | ap | pa | ac | ci | io | ou | us
- Trigram
- rap | apa | pac | aci | cio | iou | ous
- Quadrigram
- rapa | apac | paci | acio | ciou | ious
- Word Gram
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- devouring or craving food in great quantities;
"edacious vultures";
"a rapacious appetite";
"ravenous as wolves";
"voracious sharks" - excessively greedy and grasping;
"a rapacious divorcee on the prowl";
"ravening creditors";
"paying taxes to voracious governments" - 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"
Synonym | Definition |
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Acquisitive | eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas "an acquisitive mind" "an aquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied" |
Aegir | a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) |
All Devouring | |
All Engulfing | |
Animal | a living organism characterized by voluntary movement |
Animate Being | |
Anthropophagous | of or relating to eaters of human flesh |
Apician | |
Ardent | glowing or shining like fire "from rank to rank she darts her ardent eyes"- Alexander Pope "frightened by his ardent burning eyes" |
Atrocious | provoking horror "an atrocious automobile accident" "a frightful crime of decapitation" "an alarming, even horrifying, picture" "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill "an ugly wound" |
View all cognitive synonyms for Rapacious
Anagram | Definition |
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Rapacious | devouring or craving food in great quantities "edacious vultures" "a rapacious appetite" "ravenous as wolves" "voracious sharks" |
View English words with the unique letters used in rapacious. Words With The Letters Acioprsu
Similar Word | Definition |
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Gluttonous | given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink; "over-fed women and their gluttonous husbands"; "a gluttonous debauch"; "a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure" |
Rapacious Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With R
- Ends With S
- Spelled With / Contains Letters