[syn: predaceous, predacious, predatory]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
predacious
adj 1: hunting and killing other animals for food [syn:
predacious, predaceous]
2: 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 [syn: predaceous, predacious,
predatory]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "predacious":
all-devouring, all-engulfing, bloodsucking, cannibal,
cannibalistic, carnivorous, commensal, dietetic, dining, eating,
extortionate, feeding, flesh-eating, fruitarian, gastronomic,
gluttonous, grabby, grain-eating, graminivorous, granivorous,
grasping, grass-eating, herbivorous, insect-eating, insectivorous,
lactovegetarian, looting, lupine, man-eating, marauding,
meat-eating, mensal, nourishing, nutritious, omnivorous,
omophagous, pantophagous, parasitic, phytivorous, phytophagous,
pillaging, plant-eating, plundering, plunderous, postprandial,
prandial, predatory, preprandial, rapacious, raptorial, ravaging,
ravening, ravenous, sharkish, spoliatory, vegetable-eating,
vegetarian, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish