pre·da·cious also pre·da·ceous (pr -d sh s)adj.1. Living by seizing or taking prey; predatory. 2. Given to victimizing, plundering, or destroying for one's own gain: "the most vicious, predacious, esurient and desperate elements of this society" Claude Brown.
[From Latin praed r , to plunder; see predatory.]
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predacious Adjective
(of animals) habitually hunting and killing other animals for food [Latin praeda plunder]
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| Adj. | 1. | predacious - hunting and killing other animals for foodcarnivorous - (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals; "carnivorous plants are capable of trapping and digesting small animals especially insects" |
| 2. | predacious - 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.Swintonacquisitive - eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas; "an acquisitive mind"; "an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied" |