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predatory
adjective
living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
Quick reference
Word Facts
- Word length
- 9
- Starts with
- P
- Ends with
- Y
- Contains
- REDATOR
- Scrabble score
- 15
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
How it sounds
Pronunciation
ˈpɹedətəɹi
Meaning
Definitions
adjective
living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
“predatory capitalists”
adjective
living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
“a predatory bird”
adjective
characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
“bands of marauding Indians”
In context
Example Sentences
predatory capitalists
{'source': 'Peter S. Prescott', 'text': 'a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal'}
{'source': 'W.E.Swinton', 'text': 'a predacious kind of animal — the early geological gangster'}
a predatory bird
the rapacious wolf
raptorial birds
ravening wolves
a vulturine taste for offal
bands of marauding Indians
predatory warfare
a raiding party
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