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Definition of Predatory
1. Adjective. Characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding. "A raiding party"
2. Adjective. Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey. "A vulturine taste for offal"
Similar to: Aggressive
Derivative terms: Raptor, Vulture
3. Adjective. Living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain. "A predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"
Definition of Predatory
1. a. Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party.
Definition of Predatory
1. Adjective. Of, or relating to a predator. ¹
2. Adjective. Living by preying on other living animals. ¹
3. Adjective. (figuratively) Exploiting or victimizing others for personal gain. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Predatory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Predatory
Literary usage of Predatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1876)
"In general conduct the predatory peoples show a great superiority over loss
cultured races. ... The whole character of the predatory peoples has, indeed, ..."
2. The Conservation of the Wild Life of Canada by Charles Gordon Hewitt (1921)
"CHAPTER VIII THE ENEMIES OF WILD LIFE AND THE CONTROL OF predatory ANIMALS ANY
rational system of wild-life protection must take into account the control of ..."
3. The Conservation of the Wild Life of Canada by C. Gordon Hewitt (1921)
"CHAPTER VIII THE ENEMIES OF WILD LIFE AND THE CONTROL OF predatory ANIMALS ANY
rational system of wild-life protection must take into account the control of ..."
4. The Growth of Democracy in the United States: Or, The Evolution of Popular by Frederick Albert Cleveland (1898)
"In such cases the form of organization employed for the productive activities
was usually different from that employed for the predatory activities. ..."
5. Undercurrents in American Politics: Comprising the Ford Lectures, Delivered by Arthur Twining Hadley (1915)
"But the punishment of predatory wealth is an easier thing to promise than to ...
For predatory poverty is just as dangerous a thing as predatory wealth—a ..."
6. The Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1861)
"predatory WARFARE OF THE ENEMY—RAVAGES IN THE CHESAPEAKE HOSTILITIES ON ...
yet his instructions confined him to a predatory warfare, carried on by attacks ..."
7. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"predacious, a. predatory, raptorial, rapacious, ravening; see CARNIVOROUS. ...
[cious. predatory: plundering, preda- predestine: destine. predetermine: ..."
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