predacious

Speech parts

1. predacious - Adjective

2. predacious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain

hunting and killing other animals for food

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

predatory predaceous carnivore cannibal hunting eating predation hungry raiding parasitic greedy grasping carnivorous plundering voracious
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Antonyms

dietetic herbivore carnivorous prandial vegetarian herbivorous
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Phrases with the word

predacious spider

Examples

If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creatures could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet? Cormac McCarthy

predatory capitalists Source: Internet

a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal Source: Internet

a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster Source: Internet

In Israel, the state-sponsored illegal settlements are ideological and not merely predacious. Source: Internet

Spring netting surveys set for mid-May at Deadmans Basin will be the first chance to see how rainbow trout and kokanee have mixed with the predacious tiger muskies in these low-water conditions. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

predaceous organism predaceously predaceousness predacious spider predaciousness predacity