Stingy vs Rapacious - What's the difference?
stingy | rapacious | Related terms |
Stinging; able to sting.
Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.
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Voracious; avaricious.
* 1787 , :
Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy.
* 1910 , :
Subsisting off live prey.
* 1827 , :
Stingy is a related term of rapacious.
As adjectives the difference between stingy and rapacious
is that stingy is stinging; able to sting or stingy can be extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl while rapacious is voracious; avaricious.stingy
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(er)Etymology 2
Uncertain, possibly from stinge, a dialectal variation of .Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* stingily * stinginessrapacious
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 [...]