Synonyms for predatory
ˈprɛd əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr ipreda·to·ry

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1. predatory

   Synonyms:
   pillaging, plundering, marauding, rapacious, greedy, ravenous

   Antonyms:
   guarding, keeping, watching, protecting

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1. marauding, predatory, raidingadjective

   characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding

   "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party"

   Synonyms:
   rapacious, marauding, vulturine, predacious, raptorial, raiding, predaceous, ravening, vulturous

   Antonyms:
   unacquisitive, defensive, unaggressive, nonaggressive

2. predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturousadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   wolfish, rapacious, marauding, vulturine, predacious, raptorial, esurient, ravening, ravenous, voracious, edacious, predaceous, raiding, vulturous

   Antonyms:
   unaggressive, unacquisitive, nonaggressive, defensive

3. predaceous, predacious, predatoryadjective

   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

   Synonyms:
   rapacious, marauding, vulturine, predacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturous, raiding, predaceous

   Antonyms:
   defensive, nonaggressive, unacquisitive, unaggressive

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1. predatoryadjective

   Synonyms:
   plundering, pillaging

2. predatoryadjective

   Synonyms:
   rapacious, ravenous, greedy, voracious, hungry, preying

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1. predatoryadjective

   Synonyms:
   predaceous, plundering

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1. List of paraphrases for "predatory":

   predator, predaceous, predation, cricket

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1. Lindsay Zanno:

   Theropods were ready understudies for vacant top predator niches when large-bodied crocs and their relatives bowed out, predatory dinosaurs went on to fill these roles exclusively for the next 135 million years.

2. Michael Lettieri:

   Pena Nieto himself, Pena Nieto administration has been a failure, what most Mexicans have seen are the corruption scandals... and the violence -- which, in a way, has become even more destabilizing under Pena Nieto. Organized crime has moved away from sort of organized, large-scale drug trafficking and toward much more predatory local activity.

3. Debra Katz:

   Harvey Weinstein has hurt dozens and dozens of people by Harvey Weinstein sexual predatory rapist violent behavior, and today there can be no other discussion other than Harvey Weinstein is exactly where Harvey Weinstein should be.

4. Richard Trumka:

   For years, we have called attention to the predatory practices of some steel exporting countries. Such practices hurt working people and cheat companies that produce in the U.S., we applaud the administration's efforts today to fix this problem.

5. Dominic Raab:

   There are various objectives and motivations that lie behind these attacks, from fraud on one hand to espionage, but they tend to be designed to steal bulk personal data, intellectual property and wider information that supports those aims, they're often linked with other state actors, and we expect this kind of predatory criminal behaviour to continue and to evolve over the coming weeks and months ahead, and we're taking a range of measures to tackle that threat.