PREDATOR: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for PREDATOR?

Need another word that means the same as “predator”? Find 3 synonyms and 30 related words for “predator” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Predator” are: marauder, piranha, vulture

Predator as a Noun

Definitions of "Predator" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “predator” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• Any animal that lives by preying on other animals.
• A person who ruthlessly exploits others.
• Someone who attacks in search of booty.
• A company that tries to take over another.
• An animal that naturally preys on others.

Synonyms of "Predator" as a noun (3 Words)

marauder	Someone who attacks in search of booty. A band of English marauders were surprised and overcome.
piranha	Someone who attacks in search of booty.
vulture	Any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion. The press are vultures.

Usage Examples of "Predator" as a noun

• Females defend the nest by actively chasing off predators.
• Wolves are major predators of rodents.
• A defensive move to prevent the business falling into the hands of an overseas predator.
• A sexual predator.
• Her wealth made her vulnerable to predators.

Associations of "Predator" (30 Words)

animal	Relating to or characteristic of animals. Wild animals adapt badly to a caged life.
blackbird	Common black European thrush.
camel	A yellowish fawn colour like that of camel hair. Easy belted styles in camel or charcoal are the perfect winter coat.
carnivore	Any animal that feeds on flesh. Terrestrial carnivores have four or five clawed digits on each limb.
cheetah	A large slender spotted cat found in Africa and parts of Asia. It is the fastest animal on land.
eagle	A figure of an eagle especially as a symbol of the US. He also had an eagle three at the ninth.
elephant	Five-toed pachyderm.
falcon	A female falcon especially a peregrine. The tribes like to falcon in the desert.
hawk	Of a person hunt game with a trained hawk. He spent the afternoon hawking.
herbivore	Any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants. The sauropod dinosaurs were apparently herbivores.
insectivore	A mammal of the obsolete order Insectivora.
leopard	Spotted like a leopard. A leopard print outfit.
lion	A celebrity who is lionized much sought after.
mammalian	Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk. Cats and other mammalian predators.
marauder	A person who marauds; a raider. A band of English marauders were surprised and overcome.
marsupial	Relating to the marsupials.
monkey	A person who is dominated or controlled by another with reference to the monkey traditionally kept by an organ grinder. Then marched the Three who monkeyed our Great and Dead.
omnivore	A person who eats all kinds of foods.
owl	Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes.
pachyderm	Any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant; rhinoceros; hippopotamus.
panther	A leopard, especially a black one.
pouched	Having a pouch.
quadruped	An animal which has four feet, especially an ungulate mammal. Primitive quadruped simian species.
raptor	A dromaeosaurid dinosaur especially a velociraptor or utahraptor.
rhinoceros	Massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout.
shrew	A scolding nagging bad-tempered woman. Hold your nagging tongue you miserable old shrew.
tiger	Used in names of tiger moths and striped butterflies e g scarlet tiger plain tiger. One of the sport s young tigers.
vertebrate	Denoting a vertebrate or relating to the vertebrates as a group.
vicious	Marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful. The dog was vicious and likely to bite.
vulture	A large bird of prey with the head and neck more or less bare of feathers, feeding chiefly on carrion and reputed to gather with others in anticipation of the death of a sick or injured animal or person. Rock musicians are set upon by vulture managers.