Rapacious Greedy Adj Aggressively Excessively Grasping Predatory Doesn’t

Rapacious doesn’t just mean aggressive; it has the added connotation of greedy and grasping behavior. Here’s a sentence that puts the word in context: “The rapacious company bought up all its smaller competitors until it had the monopoly on lollipops in North America.”

Synonyms for rapacious include ravenous, voracious, and avaricious. Use rapacious when you want to emphasize the greedy, devouring nature of aggression.