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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. hunting and killing other animals for food;
[syn: predacious, predaceous]

2. living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain;
- Example: "predatory capitalists"
- Example: "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S. Prescott
- Example: "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"- W.E.Swinton
[syn: predaceous, predacious, predatory]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

predacious adj 1: hunting and killing other animals for food [syn: predacious, predaceous] 2: 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 [syn: predaceous, predacious, predatory]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

60 Moby Thesaurus words for "predacious": all-devouring, all-engulfing, bloodsucking, cannibal, cannibalistic, carnivorous, commensal, dietetic, dining, eating, extortionate, feeding, flesh-eating, fruitarian, gastronomic, gluttonous, grabby, grain-eating, graminivorous, granivorous, grasping, grass-eating, herbivorous, insect-eating, insectivorous, lactovegetarian, looting, lupine, man-eating, marauding, meat-eating, mensal, nourishing, nutritious, omnivorous, omophagous, pantophagous, parasitic, phytivorous, phytophagous, pillaging, plant-eating, plundering, plunderous, postprandial, prandial, predatory, preprandial, rapacious, raptorial, ravaging, ravening, ravenous, sharkish, spoliatory, vegetable-eating, vegetarian, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish