About The Word Parasitic
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Parasitic
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What's The Definition Of Parasitic?
[adj] of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another; "a wealthy class parasitic upon the labor of the masses"; "parasitic vines that strangle the trees"; "bloodsucking blackmailer"; "his indolent leechlike existence"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Parasitic: bloodsucking | dependent | leechlike | parasitical Related Terms | Find terms related to Parasitic: abject | accompanying | accordant | agreeing | all-devouring | all-engulfing | associate | associated | at one with | backscratching | beggarly | bloodsucking | bone-lazy | bootlicking | cadging | coacting | coactive | coadunate | coincident | collaborative | collective | collusive | combined | combining | commensal | concerted | concomitant | concordant | concurrent | concurring | conjoint | consilient | conspiratorial | cooperant | cooperative | coordinate | cowering | coworking | crawling | cringing | crouching | dilatory | doless | do-nothing | dronish | drony | easy | ecological | ecotopic | ergophobic | extortionate | faineant | fawning | flattering | footlicking | good-for-nothing | grabby | grasping | groveling | hangdog | harmonious | indolent | ingratiating | joint | kowtowing | laggard | lax | lazy | leechlike | lupine | mealymouthed | meeting | nonaggressive | obeisant | obsequious | on bended knee | predacious | predatory | procrastinative | prostrate | rapacious | raptorial | ravening | ravenous | remiss | saprophytic | scrounging | sharkish | shiftless | slack | slothful | slow | sniveling | sponging | sycophantic | symbiotic | synchronous | synergetic | synergic | synergistic | timeserving | toadeating | toadying | toadyish | truckling | unenterprising | united | uniting | vulturine | vulturous | wolfish | work-shy See Also | Parasitic In Webster's Dictionary \Par`a*sit"ic\, Parasitical \Par`a*sit"ic*al\, a. [L.
parasiticus, Gr. ?: cf. F. parasitique.]
1. Of the nature of a parasite; fawning for food or favors;
sycophantic. ``Parasitic preachers.'' --Milton.
2. (Bot. & Zo["o]l.) Of or pertaining to parasites; living
on, or deriving nourishment from, some other living animal
or plant. See {Parasite}, 2 & 3.
{Parasitic gull}, {Parasitic jager}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Jager}.
-- {Par`a*sit"ic*al*ly}, adv. -- {Par`a*sit"ic*al*ness},
n.
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