Rapacious and Wild

Rapacious

Rapacious adjective - Living by killing and eating other animals.
Usage example: rapacious mammals, such as coyotes, foxes, and bobcats

Wild and rapacious are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wild" instead an adjective "Rapacious".

Nearby Words: rapacity, rapaciously

Wild

Wild adjective - Living outdoors without taming or domestication by humans.

Rapacious and wild are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Rapacious" instead an adjective "Wild".

Nearby Words: wildly, wilding, wilde

Both words in one sentence

  • Literature / Cerberon Even Evil Has Standards: Aladavan annihilates a clan of crazed haflings because they are rapacious cannibalistic monsters, worse than wild hackals.
  • One Nation Under Copyright In the Wild Cards series there are brief mentions of a space-faring conglomerate known as "The Network" which is described at one point as "a form of capitalism more rapacious than anything you can imagine".
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