rap | (noun) the act of hitting vigorously | Synonyms: belt, knock, whack, whang |
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(noun) a reproach for some lapse or misdeed | Synonyms: blame |
(noun) voluble conversation | - |
(noun) genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged | Synonyms: hip-hop, rap music |
(noun) the sound made by a gentle blow | Synonyms: pat, tap |
(noun) a gentle blow | Synonyms: strike, tap |
(verb) talk volubly | - |
(verb) strike sharply | Synonyms: knap |
(verb) perform rap music | - |
(verb) make light, repeated taps on a surface | Synonyms: knock, pink, tap |
rapacious | (adjective) excessively greedy and grasping | Synonyms: ravening, voracious |
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(adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | Synonyms: predatory, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous |
(adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, esurient, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish |
rapaciously | (adverb) in a rapacious manner | - |
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rapaciousness | (noun) extreme gluttony | Synonyms: edacity, esurience, rapacity, voraciousness, voracity |
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(noun) an excessive desire for wealth (usually in large amounts) | Synonyms: greediness, voraciousness |
(noun) (of an animal, usually a bird) The quality of subsisting off live prey. | Synonyms: predaceousness, predaciousness, rapacity |
rapacity | (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: avarice, avaritia, covetousness, greed |
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(noun) extreme gluttony | Synonyms: edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, voraciousness, voracity |
(noun) (of an animal, usually a bird) The quality of subsisting off live prey. | Synonyms: predaceousness, predaciousness, rapaciousness |
rape | (noun) the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will | Synonyms: assault, ravishment, violation |
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(noun) the act of despoiling a country in warfare | Synonyms: rapine |
(noun) Eurasian plant cultivated for its seed and as a forage crop | Synonyms: Brassica napus, colza |
(verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: despoil, plunder, spoil, violate |
(verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage, ravish, violate |
raped | (adjective) having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence | Synonyms: despoiled, pillaged, ravaged, sacked |
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raper | (noun) someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse | Synonyms: rapist |
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rapeseed | (noun) seed of rape plants; source of an edible oil | - |
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raphe | (noun) a ridge that forms a seam between two parts | Synonyms: rhaphe |
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raphia | (noun) leaf fibers of the raffia palm tree; used to make baskets and mats etc. | Synonyms: raffia |
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rapid | (adjective) done or occurring in a brief period of time | - |
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(adjective) characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed | Synonyms: speedy |
(noun) a part of a river where the current is very fast | - |
rapidity | (noun) a rate that is rapid | Synonyms: celerity, quickness, rapidness, speediness |
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rapidly | (adverb) with speed | Synonyms: apace, chop-chop, in short order, quickly, speedily |
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rapidness | (noun) a rate that is rapid | Synonyms: celerity, quickness, rapidity, speediness |
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rapier | (noun) a straight sword with a narrow blade and two edges | Synonyms: tuck |
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rapine | (noun) the act of despoiling a country in warfare | Synonyms: rape |
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rapist | (noun) someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse | Synonyms: raper |
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rappee | (noun) strong snuff made from dark coarse tobacco | - |
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rappel | (noun) (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body | Synonyms: abseil |
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(verb) descend by means of a rappel | Synonyms: abseil, rope down |
rappeller | (noun) a person who descends down a nearly vertical face by using a doubled rope that is wrapped around the body and attached to some high point | Synonyms: abseiler |
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rapper | (noun) a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door | Synonyms: doorknocker, knocker |
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(noun) someone who performs rap music | - |
rapport | (noun) a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people | Synonyms: resonance |
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rapporteur | (noun) a recorder appointed by a committee to prepare reports of the meetings | - |
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rapprochement | (noun) the reestablishing of cordial relations | Synonyms: reconciliation |
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rapscallion | (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, monkey, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp |
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(noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: knave, rascal, rogue, scalawag, scallywag, varlet |
rapt | (adjective) feeling great rapture or delight | Synonyms: ecstatic, enraptured, rapturous, rhapsodic |
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(adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: absorbed, captive, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, wrapped |
raptor | (noun) any of numerous carnivorous birds that hunt and kill other animals | Synonyms: bird of prey, raptorial bird |
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raptorial | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of birds of prey | - |
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(adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | Synonyms: predatory, rapacious, ravening, vulturine, vulturous |
rapture | (noun) a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion | Synonyms: ecstasy, exaltation, raptus, transport |
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(noun) a state of elated bliss | Synonyms: ecstasy |
rapturous | (adjective) feeling great rapture or delight | Synonyms: ecstatic, enraptured, rapt, rhapsodic |
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rapturously | (adverb) in an ecstatic manner | Synonyms: ecstatically, rhapsodically |
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raptus | (noun) a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion | Synonyms: ecstasy, exaltation, rapture, transport |
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(noun) a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease | Synonyms: ictus, seizure |