predacious (redirected from predacity)

pre·da·cious also pre·da·ceous  (pr-dshs)

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).

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[From Latin praedr, to plunder; see predatory.]

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pre·dacious·ness, pre·daceous·ness, pre·daci·ty (-ds-t) n.

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predacious, predaceous [prɪˈdeɪʃəs]

adj

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) (of animals) habitually hunting and killing other animals for food

2. preying on others

[from Latin praeda plunder; compare predatory]

predaciousness , predaceousness, predacity [prɪˈdæsɪtɪ] n

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	predacious - hunting and killing other animals for food predaceous carnivorous - (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.Swinton predaceous, predatory acquisitive - 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"