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Synonyms for rapacious

Synonyms for rapacious: voracious and predatory. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective

The 2 synonyms for rapacious

Interchangeable with rapacious in this sense

Audited under rapacious's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one rapacious carries in that sense.

voraciousadjective, in the sense "excessively greedy and grasping"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name rapacious as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

predatorypredatory is an adjective in the sense "living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey"

Two directions, one standard: one audited under rapacious and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High CampActions

excessively greedy and grasping

A rapacious divorcee on the prowl.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

voracious

Same sentence, swapped: A voracious divorcee on the prowl.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

lupine
extortionate
parasitic

Where rapacious turns up in the game

rapacious is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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