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Defenition of the word predatory

    • Defenition of the word predatory

      • Of, or relating to a predator.
      • Exploiting or victimizing others for personal gain.
      • characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party"
      • 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
      • 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"
      • 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.Swin
      • living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
      • living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
      • characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding

    Synonyms for the word predatory

      • grasping
      • greedy
      • marauding
      • predaceous
      • predacious
      • raiding
      • rapacious
      • raptorial
      • ravening
      • voracious
      • vulturine
      • vulturous

    Similar words in the predatory

      • acquisitive
      • aggressive
      • offensive
      • predatory

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