About The Word Predatory
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Predatory
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What's The Definition Of Predatory?
[adj] 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
[adj] 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" [adj] characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party" Synonyms | Synonyms for Predatory: acquisitive | aggressive | marauding | offensive | predaceous | predacious | raiding | rapacious | raptorial | ravening | vulturine | vulturous Related Terms | Find terms related to Predatory: all-devouring | all-engulfing | avaricious | bloodsucking | carnivorous | despoiling | extortionate | grabby | grasping | greedy | larcenous | looting | lupine | marauding | parasitic | pillaging | plundering | plunderous | predacious | rapacious | raptorial | ravaging | ravening | ravenous | robbing | sharkish | spoliatory | thieving | usurious | voracious | vulturine | vulturous | wolfish See Also | Predatory In Webster's Dictionary \Pred"a*to*ry\, a. [L. praedatorius, fr. praedari to
plunder, fr. praeda prey. See {Prey}.]
1. Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine;
plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a
predatory party. ``A predatory war.'' --Macaulay.
2. Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits. [Obs.]
Exercise . . . maketh the spirits more hot and
predatory. --Bacon.
3. (Zo["o]l.) Living by preying upon other animals;
carnivorous.
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