Synonyms for Rapacious:

adj.

•all (adjective)
ravening, vulturine, predatory, raptorial, vulturous.
•avaricious (adjective)
possessive, venal, hoarding, money-grubbing, grasping, greedy, selfish, monopolistic, miserly, Cadging, usurious, sordid, mercenary, acquisitive, avaricious.
•edacious (adjective)
edacious.
•gluttonous (adjective)
insatiable, intemperate, indulgent, gluttonous, boundless, omnivorous, crapulent, immoderate, hoggish, piggish, voracious, overindulgent, extravagant, greedy, wolfish, excessive.
•plundering (adjective)
ravening, savage, avaricious, predatory, ravenous, murderous, voracious, greedy.
•predatory (adjective)
vulturous, vulturine, raptorial.

n.

self-seeking, self-centered, cynical, self-absorbed, ungenerous, inward-looking. murderous, carnivorous, savage, extortionate. desire, unappeasable. •rapacious (noun)
edacious, esurient, acquisitive, wolfish, voracious, gluttonous, raptorial, ravening, predatory, vulturous, aggressive, vulturine, ravenous.

Other synonyms:

self-seeking, unappeasable. •cruel
savage.
•flesh-eating
carnivorous.
•oppressive
extortionate.
•Other relevant words:
ravening, raptorial, desire, inward-looking, edacious, ravenous, carnivorous, aggressive, ungenerous, savage, esurient, predatory, acquisitive, murderous, self-seeking, unappeasable, extortionate, cynical, vulturine, self-absorbed, self-centered, vulturous.

Usage examples for rapacious

1. But, uneasy instinct still urging him, he deemed it advisable to peer round the corner of the summer- house before he yielded to the promptings of a rapacious appetite. – The Way of an Eagle by Ethel M. Dell