WOLFISH vs RAPACIOUS: NOUN
- Hungry as a wolf is supposed to be; ravenous.
- Like a wolf; having the qualities or traits of a wolf; savage; ravening: as, a wolfish visage; wolfish designs.
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WOLFISH vs RAPACIOUS: ADJECTIVE
- Devouring or craving food in great quantities
- Of or relating to wolves.
- Suggestive of or resembling a wolf.
- Fierce or rapacious.
- Like a wolf; having the qualities or form of a wolf
- Pertaining to wolves.
- Akin to the characteristics or habits of a wolf; lupine.
- Fierce; savage; menacing.
- Resembling or characteristic (or considered characteristic) of a wolf
- Excessively greedy and grasping
- Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
- Having or showing a strong or excessive desire to acquire money or possess things; greedy.
- Living by killing prey, especially in large numbers.
- Taking things by force; plundering.
- Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force.
- Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence
- Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious
- Voracious; avaricious.
- Given to taking by force or plundering.
- Subsisting off live prey.
- Devouring or craving food in great quantities
WOLFISH vs RAPACIOUS: OTHER WORD TYPES
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- Synonyms Rapacious, Ravenous, Voracious. Rapacious, literally disposed to seize, may note, as the others do not, a distinctive characteristic of certain classes of animals; the tiger is a rapacious animal, but often not ravenous or voracious. Ravenous implies hunger of an extreme sort, shown in eagerness to eat. Voracious means that one eats or is disposed to eat a great deal, without reference to the degree of hunger: a glutton is voracious. Samuel Johnson tended to be a voracious eater, because in his early life he had often gone hungry till be was ravenous.
- Of a grasping nature or character; characterized by rapacity; immoderately exacting; extortionate: as, a rapacious disposition; rapacious demands.
- Of a grasping habit or disposition; given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed, or obtaining wrongfully or by extortion; predatory; extortionate: as, a rapacious usurer; specifically, of animals, subsisting by capture of living prey; raptorial; predaceous: as, rapacious birds or fishes.
WOLFISH vs RAPACIOUS: RELATED WORDS
- Growly, Doglike, Brutish, Feral, Vulpine, Leonine, Lupine, Edacious, Esurient, Voracious, Ravenous, Gluttonous, Rapacious, Ravening, Wolflike
- Avaricious, Greedy, Vulturine, Esurient, Edacious, Aggressive, Acquisitive, Raptorial, Vulturous, Wolfish, Voracious, Gluttonous, Ravening, Ravenous, Predatory
WOLFISH vs RAPACIOUS: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Bloodthirsty, Growly, Doglike, Brutish, Feral, Vulpine, Leonine, Esurient, Edacious, Voracious, Ravenous, Gluttonous, Rapacious, Ravening, Wolflike
- Avaricious, Greedy, Vulturine, Esurient, Edacious, Aggressive, Acquisitive, Raptorial, Vulturous, Wolfish, Voracious, Gluttonous, Ravening, Ravenous, Predatory
WOLFISH vs RAPACIOUS: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Top-down, upscale business runs the other way: wolfish mergers converge on diversity but still masquerade as folksy companies faking name-recognition.
- And since I mentioned werewolves, how about a cursed mercenary company of landsknechts, forever trapped inside their wolfish forms?
- Fuerte, Mimms, or Wolfish is that a search or seizure be part of aregularized procedure.
- It turns out wolves are not quite as wolfish as they used to be.
- Weber was decided after Block and Wolfish and fully took those decision into consideration.
- His cold, wolfish face, his hooded eyes, made her very uneasy.
- No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world.
- Wolfish patentees were very nattily skating behind the frankly cyan trencher.
- He obviously has a wolfish appearance even when not transformed.
- Just the wolfish clowns of our little cirque.
- Well, I have a rapacious wishlist for Christmas but definitely a selfless one.
- Otherwise, a benign state monopoly is simply replaced with a rapacious private one.
- Government should make preparations for defending them in future from the incursions of their rapacious neighbours.
- The chronicles of medieval England had always portrayed them as rapacious 'wolves among sheep'.
- Wolf Face emoji, this one represents the two most known rapacious forest animals.
- Hail Nosey who came forth from Hermopolis, I have not been rapacious.
- Mr Venus not having been prepared for such a rapacious demand.
- This is not a study of malevolent or rapacious executives.
- He joins the Muscle in its rapacious picnicking.
- Buffing the Rapacious One is a useful catalyst.
WOLFISH vs RAPACIOUS: QUESTIONS
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- Why is the government allowing rapacious tourism to threaten tourist attractions?