predatory (redirected from predatoriness)

pred·a·to·ry  (prd-tôr, -tr)

adj.

1. Living by preying on other organisms: a predatory mammal; a predatory insect.

2.

a. Of, relating to, or characterized by plundering, pillaging, or marauding.

b. Living by or given to exploiting or destroying others for one's own gain.

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[Latin praedtrius, plundering, from praedr, to plunder, from praeda, booty; see ghend- in Indo-European roots.]

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preda·tori·ly adv.

preda·tori·ness n.

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predatory [ˈprɛdətərɪ -trɪ]

adj

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) Zoology another word for predacious [1]

2. of, involving, or characterized by plundering, robbing, etc.

[from Latin praedātōrius rapacious, from praedārī to pillage, from praeda booty]

predatorily  adv

predatoriness  n

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	predatory - characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party" marauding, raiding offensive - for the purpose of attack rather than defense; "offensive weapons"
	2.	predatory - living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal" rapacious, ravening, vulturine, vulturous, raptorial aggressive - having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends; "an aggressive businessman"; "an aggressive basketball player"; "he was aggressive and imperious; positive in his convictions"; "aggressive drivers"
	3.	predatory - 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, predacious 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"

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predatory

adjective

1. hunting, ravening, carnivorous, rapacious, raptorial, predacious predatory birds like the eagle

2. plundering, ravaging, pillaging, marauding, thieving, despoiling predatory gangs

3. rapacious, greedy, voracious, vulturous, vulturine predatory business practices

Translations

predatory [ˈpredətərɪ] ADJ [animal] → depredador; [bird] → de presa, rapaz; [person] → rapaz; [look] → devorador

predatory [ˈprɛdətəri] adj

[bird, fish, animal] → prédateur/trice

[company, man, woman] → prédateur/trice

predatory

adj

(= involving killing) attack, tribe, behaviour → räuberisch; predatory animal → Raubtier nt; predatory instinct → Raubtierinstinkt m

(financially etc) person, behaviour → raubtierhaft

(sexually) person → raubtierhaft; he has a predatory attitude toward(s) all the girls in the office → er betrachtet alle Mädchen im Büro als Freiwild

predatory [ˈprɛdət/ərɪ] adj (animal) → rapace, predatore/trice; (habits, army) → rapace; (person, look) → avido/a, cupido/a