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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eating, destroying for sustenance or without conscience |
| Synonyms: | bloodthirsty, carnivorous, depredatory, despoiling, greedy, hungry, hunting, marauding, pillaging, plundering, predacious, predative, preying, rapacious, raptorial, ravaging, ravening, thieving, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish |
| Main Entry: | avaricious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy |
| Synonyms: | covetous, gluttonous, hoarding, money-grubbing, pleonectic, predatory, rapacious, selfish, tight* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | carnivorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eating animal flesh |
| Synonyms: | cannibal, flesh-eating, hungry, omnivorous, predatory, rapacious |
| Antonyms: | vegetarian |
| Main Entry: | ferocious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | violent, barbaric |
| Synonyms: | barbarous, bloodthirsty, brutal, brutish, cruel, fell, feral, fierce, frightful, grim, implacable, inhuman, inhumane, lupine, merciless, murderous, pitiless, predatory, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, relentless, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, tigerish, truculent, unmerciful, unrestrained, untamed, vehement, vicious, voracious, wild, wolfish |
| Antonyms: | gentle, innocent, kind, mild, nonviolent, tame, tender |
| Main Entry: | rapacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | plundering |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, ferocious, furious, greedy, marauding, murderous, predatory, preying, ravening, ravenous, savage, voracious |
| Main Entry: | ravenous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hungry; desirous |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, could eat a horse, covetous, devouring, edacious, empty, famished, ferocious, gluttonous, grasping, greedy, insatiable, insatiate, omnivorous, predatory, rapacious, ravening, starved, starved to death, starving, voracious, wolfish |
| Antonyms: | full, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | thieving/thievish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | criminal |
| Synonyms: | crooked, cunning, dishonest, fraudulent, furtive, kleptomaniacal, larcenous, light-fingered, pilfering, piratic, plunderous, predatory, rapacious, secretive, sly, spoliative, stealthy, sticky-fingered |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, philanthropic |
| Main Entry: | thieving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | criminal |
| Synonyms: | crooked, cunning, dishonest, fraudulent, furtive, kleptomaniacal, larcenous, light-fingered, pilfering, piratic, plunderous, predatory, rapacious, secretive, sly, spoliative, stealthy, sticky-fingered, thievish |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, philanthropic |
| Main Entry: | omnivorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rapacious |
| Synonyms: | gluttonous, greedy, predatory, ravenous, voracious |
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