Words that rhyme with predaceous

• audacious 0
  adj 1: invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers" [syn: audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing] 2: unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell [syn: audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent] 3: disposed to venture or take risks; "audacious visions of the total conquest of space"; "an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas"; "the most daring of contemporary fiction writers"; "a venturesome investor"; "a venturous spirit" [syn: audacious, daring, venturesome, venturous]
• capacious 0
  adj 1: large in capacity; "she carried a capacious bag"
• crustaceous 0
  adj 1: of or belonging to the class Crustacea [syn: crustaceous, crustacean] 2: being or having or resembling a hard crust or shell
• efficacious 0
  adj 1: marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended effect; "written propaganda is less efficacious than the habits and prejudices...of the readers"-Aldous Huxley; "the medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough" [ant: inefficacious] 2: producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect; "an air-cooled motor was more effective than a witch's broomstick for rapid long-distance transportation"-LewisMumford; "effective teaching methods"; "effective steps toward peace"; "made an effective entrance"; "his complaint proved to be effectual in bringing action"; "an efficacious law" [syn: effective, effectual, efficacious] [ant: ineffective, ineffectual, uneffective]
• fallacious 0
  adj 1: containing or based on a fallacy; "fallacious reasoning"; "an unsound argument" [syn: fallacious, unsound] 2: intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes" [syn: deceitful, fallacious, fraudulent] 3: based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information; "fallacious hope"
• flirtatious 0
  adj 1: like a coquette [syn: coquettish, flirtatious]
• gracious 0
  adj 1: characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit; "gracious even to unexpected visitors"; "gracious living"; "he bears insult with gracious good humor" [ant: ungracious] 2: characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects; "our benignant king" [syn: benignant, gracious] 3: exhibiting courtesy and politeness; "a nice gesture" [syn: courteous, gracious, nice] 4: disposed to bestow favors; "thanks to the gracious gods"
• herbaceous 0
  adj 1: characteristic of a nonwoody herb or plant part
• loquacious 0
  adj 1: full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by gabby neighbors" [syn: chatty, gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talkative, talky]
• mendacious 0
  adj 1: given to lying; "a mendacious child" 2: intentionally untrue; "a mendacious statement"
• mordacious 0
  adj 1: capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire" [syn: barbed, biting, nipping, pungent, mordacious] 2: biting or given to biting; "they deliberately gave me a skittish and mordacious mount"
• ostentatious 0
  adj 1: intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat" [syn: ostentatious, pretentious] [ant: unostentatious, unpretending, unpretentious] 2: (of a display) tawdry or vulgar [syn: ostentatious, pretentious]
• perspicacious 0
  adj 1: acutely insightful and wise; "much too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument"; "observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions"; "a source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators" [syn: perspicacious, sagacious, sapient] 2: mentally acute or penetratingly discerning; "too clear-eyed not to see what problems would follow"; "chaos could be prevented only by clear-sighted leadership"; "much too perspicacious to be taken in by so spurious an argument" [syn: clear-eyed, clear-sighted, perspicacious]
• sagacious 0
  adj 1: acutely insightful and wise; "much too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument"; "observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions"; "a source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators" [syn: perspicacious, sagacious, sapient] 2: skillful in statecraft or management; "an astute and sagacious statesman"
• salacious 0
  adj 1: characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man" [syn: lubricious, lustful, prurient, salacious] 2: suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks" [syn: lewd, obscene, raunchy, salacious]
• sebaceous 0
  adj 1: containing an unusual amount of grease or oil; "greasy hamburgers"; "oily fried potatoes"; "oleaginous seeds" [syn: greasy, oily, sebaceous, oleaginous]
• setaceous 0
  adj 1: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers" [syn: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny]
• spacious 0
  adj 1: very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies" [syn: broad, spacious, wide] 2: (of buildings and rooms) having ample space; "a roomy but sparsely furnished apartment"; "a spacious ballroom" [syn: roomy, spacious]
• specious 0
  adj 1: plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences" [syn: specious, spurious] 2: based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument" [syn: gilded, meretricious, specious]
• tenacious 0
  adj 1: good at remembering; "a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory" [syn: retentive, recollective, long, tenacious] [ant: forgetful, short, unretentive] 2: stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion" [syn: dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding] 3: sticking together; "two coherent sheets"; "tenacious burrs" [syn: coherent, tenacious]
• vexatious 0
  adj 1: causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong" [syn: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing]
• vivacious 0
  adj 1: vigorous and animated; "a vibrant group that challenged the system"; "a charming and vivacious hostess"; "a vivacious folk dance" [syn: vibrant, vivacious]
• voracious 0
  adj 1: excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments" [syn: rapacious, ravening, voracious] 2: devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks" [syn: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish]
• ignatius 0
  n 1: bishop of Antioch who was martyred under the Roman Emperor Trajan (died 110) [syn: Ignatius, Saint Ignatius, St. Ignatius]
• cretaceous 0
  adj 1: abounding in chalk 2: of or relating to or denoting the third period of the Mesozoic era n 1: from 135 million to 63 million years ago; end of the age of reptiles; appearance of modern insects and flowering plants [syn: Cretaceous, Cretaceous period]
• orchidaceous 0
• ceraceous 0
• hellacious 0
• horatius 0
• cactaceous 0
• myrtaceous 0
• palmaceous 0

See also predaceous definition and predaceous synonyms