Definitions for predatory
Overview of adj predatory
The adj predatory has 3 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. marauding, predatory, raiding
(characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party")
2. predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous
(living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal")
3. predaceous, predacious, predatory
(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
