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. Nadine Chabrier:

   There are 18 states and the District of Columbia that have banned payday loans and have survived just fine without these predatory lending products, there are fair and responsible lending products that have low interest rates and fees that are available and that people can use.

2. Pilar Clark:

   'zoochosis' and premature death due to captivity, particularly in the case of highly intelligent predatory animals...can't be the only option.

3. 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.

4. Hassan Zavareei:

   This is about predatory behavior of a sitting President that has the right to be heard.

5. Theresa Pierno:

   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.