- 1. a. Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party. Source: opted
- 2. a. Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits. Source: opted
- 3. a. Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous. Source: opted
- 4. adj. characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding Source: wordnet
- 5. adj. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey Source: wordnet
- 6. adj. living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain Source: wordnet
- 7. 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. (Zoöl.) Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous. Source: webster
- 8. j:100 s. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey Source: ecdict
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