Synonyms of the word predatory


PREDATORYACQUISITIVE - AGGRESSIVE - MARAUDING - OFFENSIVE - PREDACEOUS - PREDACIOUS - RAIDING - RAPACIOUS - RAPTORIAL - RAVENING - VULTURINE - VULTUROUS

predatory

  • adj. Of, or relating to a predator.
  • adj. Living by preying on other living animals.
  • adj. (figuratively) Exploiting or victimizing others for personal gain.

acquisitive

  • adj. (obsolete) Acquired.
  • adj. Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring.
  • adj. Dispositioned toward acquiring and retaining information.

aggressive

  • adj. Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking.
  • adj. (programming) Of code optimization techniques: exploiting every opportunity to be applied.

marauding

  • v. present participle of maraud.
  • adj. raiding and pillaging.
  • adj. (of an animal) killing in wanton fashion.
  • adj. (of an animal) killing domestic animals.
  • n. Raiding and pillaging.

offensive

  • adj. Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, or hatred.
  • adj. Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive.
  • adj. (team sports) Having to do with play directed at scoring.
  • n. (countable, military) An attack.
  • n. (uncountable) The posture of attacking or being able to attack.

predaceous

  • adj. Surviving by preying on other animals.

predacious

  • adj. Alternative spelling of predaceous.

raiding

  • v. present participle of raid.
  • n. The act of carrying out a raid.

rapacious

  • adj. Voracious; avaricious.
  • adj. Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy.
  • adj. (of an animal, usually a bird) Subsisting off live prey.

raptorial

  • adj. Like or resembling a raptor.

ravening

  • adj. Voracious and greedy.
  • adj. (archaic) Subject to the voracity of a predator.
  • n. (archaic, literary) Predation (of an animal); voracious eating or consumption.
  • n. Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.

vulturine

  • adj. Pertaining to vultures.
  • adj. Predaceous.

vulturous

  • adj. Having the features of a vulture, especially in being rapacious, greedy, or scavenging.

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