PREDATORY

predaceous, predacious, predatory

(adjective) 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

predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous

(adjective) 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”

marauding, predatory, raiding

(adjective) characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; “bands of marauding Indians”; “predatory warfare”; “a raiding party”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

predatory (comparative more predatory, superlative most predatory)

Of, or relating to a predator.

Living by preying on other living animals.

(figuratively) Exploiting or victimizing others for personal gain.

Anagrams

• portrayed

Source: Wiktionary

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Pred"a*to*ry, a. Etym: [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. (Zoöl.)

Definition: Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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