Need another word that means the same as “predatory”? Find 15 synonyms and 30 related words for “predatory” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Predatory” are: marauding, raiding, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous, predaceous, predacious, carnivorous, exploitative, wolfish, greedy, acquisitive, avaricious
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “predatory” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| acquisitive | Excessively interested in acquiring money or material things. We live in a competitive and acquisitive society. |
| avaricious | Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth. A corrupt and avaricious government. |
| carnivorous | Relating to or characteristic of carnivores. Carnivorous plants are capable of trapping and digesting small animals especially insects. |
| exploitative | Making use of a situation or treating others unfairly in order to gain an advantage or benefit. An exploitative form of labour. |
| greedy | Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth. He s scoffed the lot the greedy pig. |
| marauding | Characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding. Marauding gangs of youths. |
| predaceous | Living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain- Peter S. Prescott. |
| predacious | Living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain. Predacious insects. |
| raiding | Characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding. A raiding party. |
| rapacious | Excessively greedy and grasping. The rapacious wolf. |
| raptorial | Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey. Raptorial birds. |
| ravening | Excessively greedy and grasping. They turned on each other like ravening wolves. |
| vulturine | Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey. Vulturine steam powered flying machines. |
| vulturous | Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey. |
| wolfish | Devouring or craving food in great quantities. Wolfish rapacity. |
| acquisitive | Excessively interested in acquiring money or material things. An acquisitive mind. |
| animal | Characteristic of the physical and instinctive needs of animals of the flesh rather than the spirit or intellect. The evolution of animal life. |
| bite | (of a fish) take the bait or lure on the end of a fishing line into the mouth. By four o clock he still hadn t had a single bite. |
| capture | A person or thing that has been captured. Capture an idea. |
| carnivorous | (of a plant) able to trap and digest small animals, especially insects. Carnivorous plants are capable of trapping and digesting small animals especially insects. |
| catch | Catch up with and possibly overtake. There s a catch in it somewhere. |
| clasp | The act of grasping. He released his clasp on my arm. |
| clawed | (of crabs, lobsters, and other arthropods) having pincers. Scaly creatures with beaks and clawed feet. |
| clutch | A clutch bag. A clutch quarterback. |
| diet | Follow a regimen or a diet as for health reasons. A vegetarian diet. |
| eat | Eat a meal take a meal. She knew what was eating him. |
| fishing | The act of someone who fishes as a diversion. Fishing boats. |
| genitive | The genitive case. The genitive endings. |
| gluttonous | Excessively greedy. A gluttonous cigar smoking capitalist. |
| grab | A quick sudden clutch or attempt to seize. The brakes grabbed very badly. |
| greedy | Having or showing an intense and selfish desire for wealth or power. Greedy for money and power. |
| herbivore | An animal that feeds on plants. Predatory carnivores and their herbivore prey. |
| hunger | Feel or suffer hunger. They died from cold and hunger. |
| insectivore | A mammal of the obsolete order Insectivora. |
| lupine | Any plant of the genus Lupinus; bearing erect spikes of usually purplish-blue flowers. |
| omnivorous | Feeding on both plants and animals. An omnivorous reader. |
| possessive | A possessive word or form. Young children are proud and possessive of their own property. |
| predation | The preying of one animal on others. The predations of would be pirates. |
| prey | Prey on or hunt for. He fell prey to muggers. |
| rapacious | Excessively greedy and grasping. A rapacious divorcee on the prowl. |
| raptorial | Relating to or characteristic of birds of prey. Raptorial front legs. |
| ravening | Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey. They turned on each other like ravening wolves. |
| seize | Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force take as one s right or possession. The invaders seized the land and property of the inhabitants. |
| sordid | Morally degraded. The overcrowded housing conditions were sordid and degrading. |
| wolf | Used in names of mammals similar or related to the wolf e g maned wolf Tasmanian wolf. He wolfed down his breakfast. |
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