 predatory |
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| 1. | [ adjective ] living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | |
| Synonyms: | raptorial ravening vulturine vulturous rapacious | |
| Examples: | "a predatory bird" "the rapacious wolf" "raptorial birds" "ravening wolves" "a vulturine taste for offal" |
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| Related terms: | aggressive | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding | |
| Synonyms: | raiding marauding | |
| Examples: | "bands of marauding Indians" "predatory warfare" "a raiding party" |
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| Related terms: | offensive | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain | |
| Synonyms: | predacious predaceous | |
| Examples: | "predatory capitalists" "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S. Prescott "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"-Swinton |
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| Related terms: | acquisitive | |
| Similar spelling: |
predator predate predation |
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