Convetous vs Rapacious - What's the difference?
convetous | rapacious |
Voracious; avaricious.
* 1787 , :
Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy.
* 1910 , :
Subsisting off live prey.
* 1827 , :
As an adjective rapacious is
voracious; avaricious.convetous
Not English
Convetous has no English definition. It may be misspelled.English words similar to 'convetous':
computers, compters, computes, confidants, confiders, confutes, compadres, cenobites, compotes, confides, competes, confitures, coenobites, computors, computus, comfitures, confeders, conopidsrapacious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- To presume a want of motives for such contests [of power between states] as an argument against their existence, would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious .
- A Prince [...] sooner becomes hated by being rapacious and by interfering with the property and with the women of his subjects, than in any other way.
- Even the rapacious birds appeared to comprehend the nature of the ceremony, for [...] they once more began to make their airy circuits above the place [...]