Nearby Words
rapacity
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rapacity
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greed |
| Synonyms: | avarice, covetousness, greediness, voracity |
| Main Entry: | rapacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greed |
| Synonyms: | avarice, covetousness, cupidity, greediness, rapaciousness, thievery, voracity |
| Antonyms: | generosity |
| Main Entry: | avarice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme greed |
| Synonyms: | avidity, close-fistedness, covetousness, cupidity, frugality, grabbiness, greediness, miserliness, niggardliness, parsimony, penny- pinching, penuriousness, rapacity, stinginess, thrift |
| Antonyms: | generosity, philanthropy |
| Main Entry: | cupidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greed, strong desire |
| Synonyms: | acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, covetousness, craving, eagerness, graspingness, greediness, hunger, infatuation, itching, longing, lust, passion, possessiveness, rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity, yearning |
| Antonyms: | dislike, distaste |
| Main Entry: | extortion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blackmail; cheating |
| Synonyms: | arm, badger, bite, coercion, compulsion, demand, exaction, force, fraud, oppression, payoff, payola, pressure, protection, racket, rapacity, shake, shakedown, squeeze, stealing, swindle, theft |
| Main Entry: | greed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overwhelming desire for more |
| Synonyms: | acquisitiveness, avarice, avidity, covetousness, craving, cupidity, eagerness, edacity, esurience, excess, gluttony, gormandizing, graspingness, hunger, indulgence, insatiableness, intemperance, longing, piggishness, rapacity, ravenousness, selfishness, swinishness, the gimmies, voracity |
| Antonyms: | benevolence, generosity |
| Main Entry: | theft |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stealing |
| Synonyms: | annexation, appropriation, break-in, burglary, caper, cheating, crime, defrauding, deprivation, embezzlement, extortion, filch, fleece, fraud, grab*, heist, holdup, hustle*, job*, larceny, lift*, looting, mugging, peculation, pilferage, pilfering, pillage, pinch*, piracy, plunder, purloining, racket, rapacity, rip-off, robbery, robbing, score*, shoplifting, snatch*, snitch, steal, stickup, swindle, swindling, swiping, thievery, thieving, touch*, vandalism |
| Antonyms: | return |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | meanness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the quality of being mean |
| Synonyms: | abjection, avarice, baseness, beastliness, churlishness, closeness, contemptibleness, corruptness, covetousness, debasement, degeneracy, degradation, disrepute, frugality, greed, ill-temper, infamy, iniquity, knavishness, lowness, malice, malignity, miserliness, parsimony, pettiness, rapacity, shamelessness, smallmindedness, sordidness, stinginess, unkindness, unscrupulousness, unworthiness, wickedness |
| Antonyms: | generosity, nobility, worthiness |
| Main Entry: | voracity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ravenousness |
| Synonyms: | edacity, gluttony, greed, greediness, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness |
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