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When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
Calvin Trillin

Meaning of "rapacious" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD RAPACIOUS

From Latin rapāx grasping, from rapere to seize.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF RAPACIOUS

rapacious  [rəˈpeɪʃəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RAPACIOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Rapacious is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES RAPACIOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of rapacious in the English dictionary

The first definition of rapacious in the dictionary is practising pillage or rapine. Other definition of rapacious is greedy or grasping. Rapacious is also subsisting by catching living prey.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RAPACIOUS


audacious
ɔːˈdeɪʃəs
bodacious
bəʊˈdeɪʃəs
capacious
kəˈpeɪʃəs
cepaceous
sɪˈpeɪʃəs
cretaceous
krɪˈteɪʃəs
curvaceous
kɜːˈveɪʃəs
dipterocarpaceous
ˌdɪptərəʊkɑːˈpeɪʃəs
drupaceous
druːˈpeɪʃəs
efficacious
ˌɛfɪˈkeɪʃəs
flirtatious
flɜːˈteɪʃəs
gracious
ˈɡreɪʃəs
hellacious
hɛˈleɪʃəs
incapacious
ˌɪnkəˈpeɪʃəs
ostentatious
ˌɒstɛnˈteɪʃəs
rampacious
ræmˈpeɪʃəs
scolopaceous
ˌskɒləˈpeɪʃəs
spacious
ˈspeɪʃəs
tenacious
tɪˈneɪʃəs
vivacious
vɪˈveɪʃəs
voracious
vɒˈreɪʃəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RAPACIOUS

rap
rap artist
rap jumping
rap music
rap over the knuckles
rap session
rap sheet
Rapa Nui
rapaciously
rapaciousness
rapacity
Rapacki
Rapacki Plan
Rapallo
rape
rape alarm
rape crisis centre
rape oil
raper
rapeseed

WORDS THAT END LIKE RAPACIOUS

atrocious
auspicious
bootylicious
conscious
delicious
ferocious
judicious
luscious
malicious
officious
pernicious
precious
precocious
previous
safety-conscious
self-conscious
specious
subconscious
suspicious
unconscious
vicious

Synonyms and antonyms of rapacious in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «RAPACIOUS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «rapacious» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of rapacious

Translation of «rapacious» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RAPACIOUS

Find out the translation of rapacious to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of rapacious from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rapacious» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

贪婪
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

rapaz
570 millions of speakers

English

rapacious
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लालची
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الجشع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

хищный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

voraz
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হিংস্র
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

rapace
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pemerkosaan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

habgierig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

強欲な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

탐욕스러운
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Rapacious
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tham lam
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுயநலமித்த
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रानटी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

açgözlü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rapace
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

drapieżny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

хижий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

rapace
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αρπακτικός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

roofsugtige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

rapacious
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

griske
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of rapacious

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RAPACIOUS»

The term «rapacious» is regularly used and occupies the 97.217 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RAPACIOUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «rapacious» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «rapacious» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about rapacious

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4 QUOTES WITH «RAPACIOUS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word rapacious.
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Penelope Lively
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
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Guy Spier
Warren Buffett has shown you can be very, very successful without being rapacious, while still being honest, without engaging in constant legal battles.
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Lysander Spooner
Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power, and money, as minorities; and are liable and likely to be equally - perhaps more than equally, because more boldly - rapacious, tyrannical and unprincipled, if intrusted with power.
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Calvin Trillin
When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RAPACIOUS»

Discover the use of rapacious in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rapacious and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Rapacious Kings Sagacious Kids
Both the Red and the Blue King want to own America.
Harald Hossfeld, 2010
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English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With ...
768 RACK. RAPACIOUS. to qi'iver, v. To shake, to quote, v. To cite. R. race, v. Course. RACE, GENERATION, BREED. RACE, v. Family. GENERATION, in Latin genera- tio from genero, and the Greek j-s-.v », to engender or beget, signifies the ...
George Crabb, 1818
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Rapacious
It appears that wealthy industrialist Arlis Taylor's plan to develop a geothermal energy plant in the Caribbean has come under attack from an environmental extremist group determined to block the project.
Ed Arre, 2011
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English Synonymes Explained: In Alphabetical Order
To redeem; RAPACIOUS, RAVENOUS, VORA— CIOUS. RAPACIOUS, in' Latin rapax, from rapio to seize, signifies seizing or grasping any thing with an eager desire to have. RAVENOUS, from the Latin rabies fury, and rapio to seize, signifies ...
George Crabb, 1824
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English Synonymes Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With ...
RAPACIOUS. RAPINE. 649 of the race of the Heraclidas, the race of the Bourbons, the race of the Stuarts, and the like ; but the present generation, the whole generation, a worthless generation, and the like : breed is said of those animals ...
George Crabb, 1846
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A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature
A HISTORY OF RAPACIOUS BIRDS. 59 chief difference given is in the colour of the feathers, which in the female of the bird of Nazareth are said to be extremely beautiful ; and in the length, of their legs, which in the dodo are short ; in the other  ...
Oliver Goldsmith, 1816
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The Literary Werewolf: An Anthology
PART. TWO. The. Rapacious. Werewolf. The rapacious werewolves in this section live to kill. Both are males De Maupassant's werewolf is an old male who has eluded capture for many years, Saki's werewolf is a young male who seems  ...
Charlotte F. Otten, 2002
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Freedom: A Poem, Written in Time of Recess from the ...
In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind.
Andrew Brice, 2010
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The Lancet London: A Journal of British and Foreign ...
It there constitutes a general enlargement of the whole lower part of the oesophagus ; this general enlargement of the oesophagus is very capacious in the eagles and in most of the diurnal rapacious birds. Into this great sac, which is placed in ...
‎1834
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SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each ...
There were two kinds of virus: prudent phages, which are more productive when alone, and rapacious phages, which displace prudent variants when they share a colony of bacteria. Any rapacious phage mutant should oust its ancestor, but, ...
Martin Nowak, Roger Highfield, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RAPACIOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term rapacious is used in the context of the following news items.
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Librarians storm ramparts of rapacious ebook publishers
They're gearing up for a literary brannigan aimed at getting publishers to dial back these price barriers between people and the books they love. "It is quite ... «SooToday.com, Jun 15»
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Despite jealousy of local merchants and rapacious officials, Chinese …
In this photo taken Monday, June 8, 2015, Chinese national Wei Kun, center, and his sales executive Allen Tushabe, right, sell a pair of shoes made in China to ... «Fox News, Jun 15»
3
National Post View: The Senate's culture of rapacious entitlement
The most precious morsels of information embedded in auditor general Michael Ferguson's report into senators' expenses, released Tuesday, were not with ... «National Post, Jun 15»
4
Leaders' interviews: David Cameron faces down accusation that …
Asked whether he felt physically sick when he saw "rapacious capitalists" telling their staff on the minimum wage they're not going to be paid for some hours, ... «CITY A.M., Apr 15»
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Tory business letter: Labour is right to attack the rapacious economic …
Will it work? Actually, it could. And so here is a test for our democracy. Will we be blackmailed and cajoled by a rapacious economic elite interested only in their ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
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The 'Rapacious' Business Model That Rules the Church of Scientology
When L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetcs enterprise collapsed, he told his wife that the only way to make money was to found a religion, according to the HBO ... «The American Prospect, Apr 15»
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Stern warning for 'rapacious' lawyer
Predatory fees for taking over a virtually settled case incurred the wrath of a high court judge, says Carmel Rickard. An attorney who stepped into a ... «Independent Online, Oct 14»
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Report: Airbnb Is Illegal, Rapacious, & Swallowing Lower Manhattan
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman released his report [PDF] on Airbnb today, and if you live in Manhattan, some portion of it is guaranteed to piss you off. «Gothamist, Oct 14»
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VIDEO: Ravens rapacious defense shreds Buccaneers offensive line
Under Defensive Coordinator Dean Pees, the Ravens defense feasted on the miscues committed by the Buccaneers offensive line and pestered quarterback ... «Baltimore Beat Down, Oct 14»
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Comedian David Mitchell accuses Amazon of 'rapacious near …
The comedian David Mitchell has attacked Amazon, accusing the online retailer of a “rapacious near-monopoly” over the books market and acting in a “cynical ... «The Independent, Sep 14»

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