rapacious
Seizing without restraint
Rapacious means aggressively greedy, taking by force or exploitation.
A rapacious landlord squeezes tenants for every dollar.
Rapacious corporations strip resources without regard for consequences.
The word suggests predatory appetite—not just wanting more, but seizing it ruthlessly: rapacious colonizers, rapacious appetite for power.
The noun is rapacity.
Excessively desirous of wealth
- covetousEagerly wanting others' possessions
- graspingGreedy for wealth
- acquisitiveDesiring material gain
- mercenarySoldier fighting for pay
hoarding · money-grubbing · avarice · cupidity · exploitative · profiteering · extortionate · usurious
Extremely eager to consume
- unquenchableImpossible to satisfy completely
- gluttonousExcessively fond of eating
- devouringEating greedily and quickly
- ravenousExtremely hungry, insatiable
consuming · all-consuming · relentless · unappeasable · inexhaustible · bottomless · hungering · craving
Pursuing wild game
- stalkingStealthy, persistent pursuit
- pouncingLeaping to attack
- talonsHooked bird claws
- fangsSharp piercing teeth
prey · carnivorous · apex · raptorial · hawkish · vulturine · wolfish · swooping
Violent theft of goods
ransack · sack · raid · depredation · brigandage · piracy · conquest · exploitation
avaricious
Excessively desirous of wealth
- covetousEagerly wanting others' possessions
- graspingGreedy for wealth
- acquisitiveDesiring material gain
mercenary · hoarding · money-grubbing · avarice · cupidity · exploitative · profiteering · extortionate · usurious · monopolistic
voracious
Extremely eager to consume
- unquenchableImpossible to satisfy completely
- gluttonousExcessively fond of eating
- devouringEating greedily and quickly
ravenous · consuming · all-consuming · relentless · unappeasable · inexhaustible · bottomless · hungering · craving · gorging
hunting
Pursuing wild game
fangs · prey · carnivorous · apex · raptorial · hawkish · vulturine · wolfish · swooping · seizing
pillage
Violent theft of goods
ravage · ransack · sack · raid · depredation · brigandage · piracy · conquest · exploitation · colonialism
- fancy wordsgrandiloquent, magniloquent, sesquipedalian, pulchritudinous, tintinnabulation
rapaciousgenerous
Willing to give freely
selfless · magnanimous · charitable · munificent · bountiful
rapaciousharmless
Causing no injury
gentle · nonaggressive · tame · peaceful · unaggressive