Synonyms for predacious

Adjective

1. predacious, predaceous, carnivorous (vs. herbivorous) (vs. omnivorous) (vs. insectivorous)

usage: hunting and killing other animals for food

2. predaceous, predacious, predatory, acquisitive (vs. unacquisitive)

usage: 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