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