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Synonyms for PREDATORY
ˈprɛd əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr ipreda·to·ry
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
predatory
Synonyms:
pillaging, plundering, marauding, rapacious, greedy, ravenousAntonyms:
guarding, keeping, watching, protecting
Princeton's WordNet
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, predatory, ravening, vulturousAntonyms:
unacquisitive, defensive, unaggressive, nonaggressivepredatory, 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, predatory, raiding, vulturousAntonyms:
unaggressive, unacquisitive, nonaggressive, defensivepredaceous, 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, predatory, raiding, predaceousAntonyms:
defensive, nonaggressive, unacquisitive, unaggressive
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
predatoryadjective
Synonyms:
predaceous, plundering
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List of paraphrases for "predatory":
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#5583 | cricket | |
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#33754 | predation | |
#53157 | raiding | |
#65061 | voracious | |
#65151 | ravenous | |
#74268 | plundering | |
#89522 | marauding | |
#108052 | pillaging | |
#108194 | rapacious | |
#190114 | wolfish | |
#212898 | ravening | |
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Just as the penguin and seal colonies enrich the soil for native plants, its also possible that they are making it ideal for invasive species as well, which could be hardier and provide shelter for predatory insects like spiders and beetles, right now, the system is too unproductive to support any mammals like rats and mice.
We believe that these rules are cruel and irresponsible, these practices are used as predator control methods, which means they're used to suppress predatory species to artificially elevate the population of game species.
Someone who has divorced two wives, someone who has been involved in the casino industry that is predatory of the poor, and yet says that he has nothing to be forgiven of, nothing to apologize for, i think that speaks to someone's character.
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.
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
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