creophagist

/kriːˈɒfədʒɪst/

Definitions

1. noun

A person who eats or devours corpses, especially a person who eats the flesh of animals that have died of natural causes.

“The villagers believed the stranger to be a creophagist, feasting on the carcasses of dead animals.”

Synonyms

  • cannibal
  • corpse eater

Antonyms

  • funerary
  • humanitarian