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Meaning of 'predatory' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Predatory [ a.]
- Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party.
- Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits.
- Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous.

Meaning of 'predatory' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . predatory [ s]
Meaning (1):
- living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
Example in sentence:
  • a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster;
  • a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal;
  • predatory capitalists
Meaning (2):
- living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
Example in sentence:
  • a predatory bird;
  • a vulturine taste for offal;
  • raptorial birds;
  • ravening wolves;
  • the rapacious wolf
Meaning (3):
- characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
Example in sentence:
  • a raiding party;
  • bands of marauding Indians;
  • predatory warfare

Nearby Words:

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