| a. | 1. | Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; |
| 2. | Hungry; ravenous; | |
| 3. | (Zool.) Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous. |
| Adj. | 1. | predatory - characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party" |
| 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" | |
| 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 Synonyms: predaceous, predacious |