predatory

  • (s) characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
    • bands of marauding Indians
    • predatory warfare
    • a raiding party
    marauding, raiding,
  • (s) 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,
  • (s) 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,

Synonyms

marauding raiding rapacious ravening vulturine vulturous raptorial predaceous predacious

Words of close approximity

predator
predatory animal