Predatory

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Living by preying on other organisms: a predatory mammal; a predatory insect.
  • adj. Of, relating to, or characterized by plundering, pillaging, or marauding.
  • adj. Living by or given to exploiting or destroying others for one's own gain.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of, or relating to a predator.
  • adj. Living by preying on other living animals.
  • adj. Exploiting or victimizing others for personal gain.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging
  • adj. Hungry; ravenous.
  • adj. Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Plundering; pillaging; living by rapine or preying.
  • Characterized by rapine; spent in plundering; devoted to pillaging.
  • In zoology, habitually preying upon other animals; carnivorous or insectivorous, as a mammal; rapacious or raptorial, as a bird; adephagous, as an insect.
  • Hungry; ravenous.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
  • adj. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
  • adj. living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
    • Equivalent
    offensive    aggressive    acquisitive   
    Form
    predatory pricing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    plundering    pillaging    hungry    ravenous    carnivorous   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ferocious    feral    aggressive    bloodthirsty    vicious   
     
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