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单词 rapacious
释义
Rapacious
adj satadj.allliving by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
Synset:predatory raptorial ravening vulturine vulturous
Examples:
  • a predatory bird
  • the rapacious wolf
  • raptorial birds
  • ravening wolves
  • a vulturine taste for offal
Antonyms:unaggressive
Derivationally Related Form:raptorvulture
Inherited Hypernyms:predatory
Similar to:aggressive
adj satadj.allexcessively greedy and grasping
Synset:ravening voracious
Examples:
  • a rapacious divorcee on the prowl
  • ravening creditors
  • paying taxes to voracious governments
Antonyms:unacquisitive
Derivationally Related Form:voraciousnessrapacity
Inherited Hypernyms:rapacious
Similar to:acquisitive
adj satadj.alldevouring or craving food in great quantities
Synset:edacious esurient ravening ravenous voracious wolfish
Examples:
  • edacious vultures
  • a rapacious appetite
  • ravenous as wolves
  • voracious sharks
Antonyms:abstemious
Derivationally Related Form:edacityesuriencevoracityravenousnessrapaciousnessvoraciousnessrapacity
Inherited Hypernyms:edacious
Similar to:gluttonous
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