ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsRrapacious
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rapacious
Meaning: aggressively greedy for wealth, power, or possessions
rapacious in a sentence
How rapacious is used in real sentences:
Rapacious speculators bought the farms cheaply and sold them at enormous profits.
The rapacious company seized every chance to eliminate rivals and raise prices.
“Its rapacious owners treated every marsh acre as potential storage, while solvents inimical to eelgrass seeped steadily through cracked lagoons.”
— from the passage The Ninth Spring
“Young reviewers competed for entry to that circle, while rapacious galleries sought fashionable canvases they could acquire cheaply and sell after lavish promotion.”
— from the passage The Late Correction
Synonyms for rapacious
Other words for rapacious — greedy, avaricious and grasping — carry the same meaning.
- greedy
- avaricious
- grasping
Antonyms of rapacious
Words that mean the opposite of rapacious:
- generous
- charitable
- selfless
Where it comes from
From Latin rapere, meaning 'to seize or carry off.'
Memory hook
RAPACIOUS sounds like 'grabacious': a rapacious person grabs greedily.