English adjective: predacious | |||
1. | predacious hunting and killing other animals for food | ||
Synonyms | predaceous | ||
Similar | carnivorous | ||
Antonyms | herbivorous, insectivorous, omnivorous | ||
2. | predacious 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, predatory | ||
Similar | acquisitive | ||
Antonyms | unacquisitive | ||