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English adjective: predacious

1. predacious hunting and killing other animals for food


Synonymspredaceous


Similarcarnivorous


Antonymsherbivorous, insectivorous, omnivorous

2. predacious living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain


SamplesPredatory capitalists.
A predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal.
A predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster.


Synonymspredaceous, predatory


Similaracquisitive


Antonymsunacquisitive









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