Rapacious
Rapacious adjective - Having a huge appetite.
Usage example: nothing livens things up like a whole team of rapacious basketball players descending upon the pizza parlor
Starving and rapacious are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Starving" instead an adjective "Rapacious".
Nearby Words: rapacity, rapaciously
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- greedy and rapacious
- greedy and starving
- covetous and rapacious
- covetous and starving
- ferocious and rapacious
- ferocious and starving
- avid and rapacious
- avid and starving
- hungry and rapacious
- hungry and starving
- avaricious and rapacious
- avaricious and starving
- grasping and rapacious
- grasping and starving
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