Meaning & Definition of Predatory in English
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Predatory
/prɛdətɔri/
adjective
1. Characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
- "Bands of marauding indians"
- "Predatory warfare"
- "A raiding party"
synonym:
- marauding,
- predatory,
- raiding
2. Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
- "A predatory bird"
- "The rapacious wolf"
- "Raptorial birds"
- "Ravening wolves"
- "A vulturine taste for offal"
synonym:
- predatory,
- rapacious,
- raptorial,
- ravening,
- vulturine,
- vulturous
3. Living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
- "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"- w.e.swinton
synonym:
- predaceous,
- predacious,
- predatory