Rapacious means greedily grasping for more at others' cost. A rapacious landlord, rapacious appetite, rapacious in business.
The cost to others is the whole of it, which is what separates it from ambitious. The Latin means grasping, from the verb to seize, and rape and rapture share the root.
1adjectiverapaciousGreedily grasping for more at others' cost.
“Rapacious developers bought up the old farms and covered them with cheap houses.”
rapacious is a quality.
Latin rapax means grasping, from rapere, to seize.
Latin
rapāx — grasping, greedy
English, today
rapacious
Perhaps from rapacity ous, in any case ultimately from Latin rapāx (“grasping, greedy”) -acious.
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