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English adjective: predatory | |||
| 1. | predatory characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding | ||
| Samples | Bands of marauding Indians. Predatory warfare. A raiding party. | ||
| Synonyms | marauding, raiding | ||
| Similar | offensive | ||
| Antonyms | defensive | ||
| 2. | predatory living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | ||
| Samples | A predatory bird. The rapacious wolf. Raptorial birds. Ravening wolves. A vulturine taste for offal. | ||
| Synonyms | rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous | ||
| Similar | aggressive | ||
| Antonyms | nonaggressive, unaggressive | ||
| 3. | predatory living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain | ||
| Samples | Predatory capitalists. A predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal. A predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster. | ||
| Synonyms | predaceous, predacious | ||
| Similar | acquisitive | ||
| Antonyms | unacquisitive | ||
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