Definitions for: Predatory


[adj] living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain; "predatory capitalists"; "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S. Prescott; "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"- W.E.Swinton
[adj] living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal"
[adj] characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party"



Webster (1913) Definition: Pred"a*to*ry, a. [L. praedatorius, fr. praedari to
plunder, fr. praeda prey. See Prey.]
1. Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine;
plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a
predatory party. ``A predatory war.'' --Macaulay.

2. Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits. [Obs.]

Exercise . . . maketh the spirits more hot and
predatory. --Bacon.

3. (Zo["o]l.) Living by preying upon other animals;
carnivorous.

Synonyms: acquisitive, aggressive, marauding, offensive, predaceous, predacious, raiding, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous

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