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 | ||