Synonyms of predatory

Adjective


1. marauding, predatory, raiding, offensive (vs. defensive)

usage: characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party"

2. predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous, aggressive (vs. unaggressive)

usage: 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"

3. 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

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Definition and meaning of predatory (Dictionary)