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Detailed Synonyms for predatory in English

predatory:

predatory adj

  1. predatory
  2. predatory
    – living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain 1
    predatory; predaceous; predacious
    – living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain 1
    • predatory adj
      • predatory capitalists1
      • a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal1
    • predacious adj
      • a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster1
  3. predatory
    – living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey 1
    predatory; rapacious; vulturine; ravening; vulturous; raptorial
    – living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey 1
  4. predatory
    – characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding 1
    predatory; marauding; raiding
    – characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding 1

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Related Definitions for "predatory":

  1. living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain1
    • predatory capitalists1
    • a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal1
  2. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey1
    • a predatory bird1
  3. characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding1
    • predatory warfare1

Related Synonyms for predatory