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[ adjective ] living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey

Synonyms

raptorial ravening vulturine vulturous rapacious

Examples

"a predatory bird" "the rapacious wolf" "raptorial birds" "ravening wolves" "a vulturine taste for offal"

Related terms

aggressive

2
[ adjective ] characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding

Synonyms

raiding marauding

Examples

"bands of marauding Indians" "predatory warfare" "a raiding party"

Related terms

offensive

3
[ adjective ] living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain

Synonyms

predacious predaceous

Examples

"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"-Swinton

Related terms

acquisitive

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Rhymes with

mandatory laudatory revelatory preparatory declaratory exculpatory anticipatory inhibitory participatory prohibitory observatory confirmatory purgatory respiratory lavatory compensatory laboratory obligatory congratulatory celebratory preparatory hallucinatory articulatory signatory oscillatory circulatory explanatory statutory excretory desultory transitory conciliatory dormitory discriminatory retaliatory investigatory dilatory regulatory reformatory inflammatory depilatory migratory defamatory aleatory contributory ambulatory conservatory auditory interrogatory accusatory repository exploratory expiratory oratory derogatory depository territory inventory tory repertory category dory multistory storey montessori story outlawry allegory promissory gory hoary lorry corrie lory florey flory glory quarry

Phonetic and Homophones

P R EH1 D AH0 T AO2 R IY0

Similar Spelling

predator predate predation

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