Exact Match:
- 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"
Synonyms:
- all-devouring,
- all-engulfing,
- avaricious,
- bloodsucking,
- carnivorous,
- despoiling,
- extortionate,
- grabby,
- grasping,
- greedy,
- larcenous,
- looting,
- lupine,
- marauding,
- parasitic,
- pillaging,
- plundering,
- plunderous,
- predacious,
- rapacious,
- raptorial,
- ravaging,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- robbing,
- sharkish,
- spoliatory,
- thieving,
- usurious,
- voracious,
- vulturine,
- vulturous,
- wolfish
Related Words:
- lupine
collapse - any plant of the genus Lupinus; bearing erect spikes of usually purplish-blue flowers
- of or relating to or characteristic of wolves related words >
- raptorial
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- relating to or characteristic of birds of prey; "raptorial claws and bill for seizing prey" related words >
- marauding
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- characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party" related words >
- banditry,
- brigandage,
- brigandism,
- depredation,
- despoiling,
- despoilment,
- despoliation,
- direption,
- foraging,
- foray,
- freebooting,
- looting,
- pillage,
- pillaging,
- plunder,
- plundering,
- plunderous,
- predacious,
- predatory,
- raid,
- raiding,
- ransacking,
- rape,
- rapine,
- ravage,
- ravagement,
- ravaging,
- ravishment,
- razzia,
- reiving,
- rifling,
- sack,
- sacking,
- spoiling,
- spoliation,
- spoliatory
- plundering
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- the act of stealing valuable things from a place; "the plundering of the Parthenon"; "his plundering of the great authors"
- given to taking by force what is desired related words >
- banditry,
- brigandage,
- brigandism,
- depredation,
- despoiling,
- despoilment,
- despoliation,
- direption,
- foraging,
- foray,
- freebooting,
- looting,
- marauding,
- pillage,
- pillaging,
- plunder,
- plunderous,
- predacious,
- predatory,
- raid,
- raiding,
- ransacking,
- rape,
- rapine,
- ravage,
- ravagement,
- ravaging,
- ravishment,
- razzia,
- reiving,
- rifling,
- sack,
- sacking,
- spoiling,
- spoliation,
- spoliatory
- a hog for,
- acquiring,
- acquisitive,
- all-devouring,
- all-engulfing,
- avaricious,
- avid,
- bloodsucking,
- bottomless,
- coveting,
- covetous,
- desirous,
- devouring,
- esurient,
- extortionate,
- gluttonous,
- gobbling,
- grasping,
- greedy,
- hoggish,
- insatiable,
- insatiate,
- itchy,
- limitless,
- lupine,
- mercenary,
- miserly,
- money-hungry,
- money-mad,
- omnivorous,
- overgreedy,
- parasitic,
- piggish,
- predacious,
- predatory,
- prehensile,
- quenchless,
- rapacious,
- raptorial,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- sharkish,
- slakeless,
- sordid,
- swinish,
- unappeasable,
- unappeased,
- unquenchable,
- unsated,
- unsatisfied,
- unslakeable,
- unslaked,
- venal,
- voracious,
- vulturine,
- vulturous,
- wolfish
- looting
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- plundering during riots or in wartime related words >
- assault,
- attack,
- banditry,
- battering,
- brigandage,
- brigandism,
- butchery,
- depredation,
- despoiling,
- despoilment,
- despoliation,
- direption,
- disorderliness,
- foraging,
- foray,
- forcible seizure,
- freebooting,
- killing,
- laying waste,
- marauding,
- massacre,
- obstreperousness,
- onslaught,
- pillage,
- pillaging,
- plunder,
- plundering,
- plunderous,
- predacious,
- predacity,
- predatory,
- raid,
- raiding,
- ransacking,
- rapaciousness,
- rapacity,
- rape,
- rapine,
- ravage,
- ravagement,
- ravaging,
- ravenousness,
- ravishment,
- razzia,
- reiving,
- rifling,
- riot,
- rioting,
- sack,
- sacking,
- sharkishness,
- slaughter,
- sowing with salt,
- spoiling,
- spoliation,
- spoliatory,
- unruliness,
- violation,
- wolfishness
- assault,
- attack,
- banditry,
- battering,
- brigandage,
- brigandism,
- butchery,
- depredation,
- despoiling,
- despoilment,
- despoliation,
- direption,
- disorderliness,
- foraging,
- foray,
- forcible seizure,
- freebooting,
- killing,
- laying waste,
- looting,
- marauding,
- massacre,
- obstreperousness,
- onslaught,
- pillage,
- plunder,
- plundering,
- plunderous,
- predacious,
- predacity,
- predatory,
- raid,
- raiding,
- ransacking,
- rapaciousness,
- rapacity,
- rape,
- rapine,
- ravage,
- ravagement,
- ravaging,
- ravenousness,
- ravishment,
- razzia,
- reiving,
- rifling,
- riot,
- rioting,
- sack,
- sacking,
- sharkishness,
- slaughter,
- sowing with salt,
- spoiling,
- spoliation,
- spoliatory,
- unruliness,
- violation,
- wolfishness
- predacious
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- hunting and killing other animals for food related words >
- all-devouring,
- all-engulfing,
- bloodsucking,
- cannibal,
- cannibalistic,
- carnivorous,
- commensal,
- dietetic,
- dining,
- eating,
- extortionate,
- feeding,
- flesh-eating,
- fruitarian,
- gastronomic,
- gluttonous,
- grabby,
- grain-eating,
- graminivorous,
- granivorous,
- grasping,
- grass-eating,
- herbivorous,
- insect-eating,
- insectivorous,
- lactovegetarian,
- looting,
- lupine,
- man-eating,
- marauding,
- meat-eating,
- mensal,
- nourishing,
- nutritious,
- omnivorous,
- omophagous,
- pantophagous,
- parasitic,
- phytivorous,
- phytophagous,
- pillaging,
- plant-eating,
- plundering,
- plunderous,
- postprandial,
- prandial,
- predatory,
- preprandial,
- rapacious,
- raptorial,
- ravaging,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- sharkish,
- spoliatory,
- vegetable-eating,
- vegetarian,
- vulturine,
- vulturous,
- wolfish
- all-devouring,
- all-engulfing,
- arousing,
- bloodsucking,
- clamant,
- clamorous,
- crying,
- cutthroat,
- demanding,
- draining,
- educible,
- eductive,
- elicitory,
- eradicative,
- evocative,
- exacting,
- exactive,
- excessive,
- exigent,
- exorbitant,
- extortionary,
- extortive,
- extractive,
- extravagant,
- fancy,
- gouging,
- grabby,
- grasping,
- grossly overpriced,
- immoderate,
- importunate,
- inflationary,
- inordinate,
- insistent,
- instant,
- loud,
- lupine,
- out of bounds,
- out of sight,
- outrageous,
- overpriced,
- parasitic,
- persistent,
- pertinacious,
- predacious,
- predatory,
- preposterous,
- pressing,
- prohibitive,
- rapacious,
- raptorial,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- sharkish,
- skyrocketing,
- spiraling,
- taxing,
- unconscionable,
- undue,
- unreasonable,
- unwarranted,
- uprooting,
- urgent,
- usurious,
- vulturine,
- vulturous,
- wolfish
- rapacious
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- excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments" related words >
- Apician,
- a hog for,
- acquisitive,
- all-devouring,
- all-engulfing,
- avaricious,
- avid,
- bloodsucking,
- bolting,
- bottomless,
- coveting,
- covetous,
- cramming,
- crapulent,
- crapulous,
- devouring,
- edacious,
- esurient,
- extortionate,
- ferocious,
- fierce,
- glutting,
- gluttonizing,
- gluttonous,
- gobbling,
- gorging,
- grabby,
- grasping,
- greedy,
- gulping,
- guttling,
- guzzling,
- hoggish,
- hyperphagic,
- insatiable,
- insatiate,
- intemperate,
- limitless,
- lupine,
- mercenary,
- miserly,
- money-hungry,
- money-mad,
- omnivorous,
- overgreedy,
- parasitic,
- piggish,
- polyphagic,
- predacious,
- predatory,
- quenchless,
- raptorial,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- sharkish,
- slakeless,
- sordid,
- stuffing,
- swinish,
- unappeasable,
- unappeased,
- unquenchable,
- unsated,
- unsatisfied,
- unslakeable,
- unslaked,
- usurious,
- venal,
- voracious,
- vulturine,
- vulturous,
- wolfing,
- wolfish
- Apician,
- a hog for,
- acquisitive,
- all-devouring,
- all-engulfing,
- avaricious,
- avid,
- bloodsucking,
- bolting,
- bottomless,
- coveting,
- covetous,
- cramming,
- crapulent,
- crapulous,
- devouring,
- dog-hungry,
- edacious,
- empty,
- esurient,
- extortionate,
- famished,
- famishing,
- fasting,
- glutting,
- gluttonizing,
- gluttonous,
- gobbling,
- gorging,
- grabby,
- grasping,
- greedy,
- gulping,
- guttling,
- guzzling,
- half-famished,
- half-starved,
- hoggish,
- hungering,
- hungry,
- hyperphagic,
- insatiable,
- insatiate,
- intemperate,
- limitless,
- lupine,
- mercenary,
- miserly,
- money-hungry,
- money-mad,
- omnivorous,
- overgreedy,
- parasitic,
- peckish,
- piggish,
- pinched with hunger,
- polyphagic,
- predacious,
- predatory,
- quenchless,
- rapacious,
- raptorial,
- ravening,
- sharkish,
- sharp-set,
- slakeless,
- sordid,
- starved,
- starving,
- stuffing,
- swinish,
- unappeasable,
- unappeased,
- unfilled,
- unquenchable,
- unsated,
- unsatisfied,
- unslakeable,
- unslaked,
- venal,
- voracious,
- vulturine,
- vulturous,
- wolfing,
- wolfish
- Draconian,
- Tartarean,
- all-devouring,
- all-engulfing,
- animal,
- anthropophagous,
- atrocious,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- beastly,
- bestial,
- bloodsucking,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- brutal,
- brutalized,
- brute,
- brutish,
- canine,
- cannibalistic,
- cruel,
- cruel-hearted,
- demoniac,
- demoniacal,
- devilish,
- diabolic,
- dog-hungry,
- doggy,
- empty,
- extortionate,
- famished,
- famishing,
- fasting,
- fell,
- feral,
- ferocious,
- fiendish,
- fiendlike,
- fierce,
- foxlike,
- foxy,
- grabby,
- grasping,
- grim,
- half-famished,
- half-starved,
- hellish,
- hungering,
- hungry,
- infernal,
- inhuman,
- inhumane,
- lupine,
- murderous,
- parasitic,
- peckish,
- pinched with hunger,
- predacious,
- predatory,
- rapacious,
- raptorial,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- ruthless,
- sadistic,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- satanic,
- savage,
- sharkish,
- sharp-set,
- slavering,
- starved,
- starving,
- subhuman,
- truculent,
- unchristian,
- uncivilized,
- unfilled,
- unhuman,
- vicious,
- voracious,
- vulpine,
- vulturine,
- vulturous
- mercenary
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- a person hired to fight for another country than their own related words >
- a hog for,
- acquisitive,
- adventurer,
- all-devouring,
- assistant,
- avaricious,
- avid,
- bottomless,
- bought,
- bribable,
- chartered,
- condottiere,
- corrupt,
- corruptible,
- coveting,
- covetous,
- devouring,
- drudge,
- employed,
- employee,
- esurient,
- free lance,
- girl Friday,
- gluttonous,
- gobbling,
- grabby,
- grasping,
- greedy,
- grub,
- grubber,
- gun,
- gunman,
- hack,
- hired,
- hired gun,
- hired hand,
- hired killer,
- hired man,
- hireling,
- hoggish,
- insatiable,
- insatiate,
- leased,
- let,
- limitless,
- man Friday,
- miserly,
- money-hungry,
- money-mad,
- myrmidon,
- omnivorous,
- on the take,
- overgreedy,
- paid,
- pensioner,
- piggish,
- predatory,
- professional killer,
- purchasable,
- quenchless,
- rapacious,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- rented,
- right-hand man,
- slakeless,
- slavey,
- soldier of fortune,
- sordid,
- subleased,
- sublet,
- swinish,
- unappeasable,
- unappeased,
- unethical,
- unprincipled,
- unquenchable,
- unsated,
- unsatisfied,
- unscrupulous,
- unslakeable,
- unslaked,
- venal,
- voracious,
- worker
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- adroit,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- clandestine,
- clever,
- covert,
- crafty,
- creep,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- devious,
- dexterous,
- diplomatic,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- downy,
- feline,
- foxy,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- gumshoe,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- lurk,
- masterful,
- pawky,
- politic,
- predatory,
- privy,
- quiet,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- shady,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- skulk,
- skulking,
- slick,
- slide,
- slim,
- slink,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- slippery,
- smart,
- smooth,
- snake,
- snaky,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- snook,
- sophistical,
- steal,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tactical,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- unobtrusive,
- unscrupulous,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- parasitic
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- of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another; "a wealthy class parasitic upon the labor of the masses"; "parasitic vines that strangle the trees"; "bloodsucking blackmailer"; "his indolent leechlike existence"
- relating to or caused by parasites; "parasitic infection" related words >
- abject,
- accompanying,
- accordant,
- agreeing,
- all-devouring,
- all-engulfing,
- associate,
- associated,
- at one with,
- backscratching,
- beggarly,
- bloodsucking,
- bone-lazy,
- bootlicking,
- cadging,
- coacting,
- coactive,
- coadunate,
- coincident,
- collaborative,
- collective,
- collusive,
- combined,
- combining,
- commensal,
- concerted,
- concomitant,
- concordant,
- concurrent,
- concurring,
- conjoint,
- consilient,
- conspiratorial,
- cooperant,
- cooperative,
- coordinate,
- cowering,
- coworking,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- dilatory,
- do-nothing,
- doless,
- dronish,
- drony,
- easy,
- ecological,
- ecotopic,
- ergophobic,
- extortionate,
- faineant,
- fawning,
- flattering,
- footlicking,
- good-for-nothing,
- grabby,
- grasping,
- groveling,
- hangdog,
- harmonious,
- indolent,
- ingratiating,
- joint,
- kowtowing,
- laggard,
- lax,
- lazy,
- leechlike,
- lupine,
- mealymouthed,
- meeting,
- nonaggressive,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- on bended knee,
- predacious,
- predatory,
- procrastinative,
- prostrate,
- rapacious,
- raptorial,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- remiss,
- saprophytic,
- scrounging,
- sharkish,
- shiftless,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- sniveling,
- sponging,
- sycophantic,
- symbiotic,
- synchronous,
- synergetic,
- synergic,
- synergistic,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- truckling,
- unenterprising,
- united,
- uniting,
- vulturine,
- vulturous,
- wolfish,
- work-shy
- grasping
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- the act of gripping something firmly with the hands
- understanding with difficulty; "the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings" related words >
- a hog for,
- acquiring,
- acquisitive,
- acquisitiveness,
- all-devouring,
- all-engulfing,
- ambitious for self,
- autistic,
- avarice,
- avaricious,
- avariciousness,
- avid,
- avidity,
- avidness,
- bloodsucking,
- bottomless,
- careerist,
- clamant,
- clamorous,
- clinging,
- coveting,
- covetous,
- covetousness,
- crying,
- cupidity,
- demanding,
- desirous,
- devouring,
- draining,
- egotistical,
- esurient,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- exorbitant,
- extortionate,
- frenzy of desire,
- fury of desire,
- gluttonous,
- gluttony,
- gobbling,
- grabby,
- graspingness,
- greed,
- greediness,
- greedy,
- gripping,
- hoggish,
- hoggishness,
- holding,
- importunate,
- incontinence,
- individualistic,
- inordinate desire,
- insatiability,
- insatiable,
- insatiable desire,
- insatiate,
- insistent,
- instant,
- intemperateness,
- itching palm,
- itchy,
- keeping,
- limitless,
- loud,
- lupine,
- lust,
- mean,
- mercenary,
- miserly,
- money-hungry,
- money-mad,
- narcissistic,
- niggardly,
- omnivorous,
- overgreediness,
- overgreedy,
- parasitic,
- parsimonious,
- penny-pinching,
- penurious,
- persistent,
- personalistic,
- pertinacious,
- piggish,
- piggishness,
- possessive,
- predacious,
- predatory,
- prehensile,
- pressing,
- privatistic,
- quenchless,
- rapacious,
- rapaciousness,
- rapacity,
- raptorial,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- ravenousness,
- remote,
- retentive,
- self-absorbed,
- self-admiring,
- self-advancing,
- self-besot,
- self-centered,
- self-considerative,
- self-contained,
- self-devoted,
- self-esteeming,
- self-indulgent,
- self-interested,
- self-jealous,
- self-occupied,
- self-pleasing,
- self-seeking,
- self-serving,
- self-sufficient,
- selfish,
- sharkish,
- slakeless,
- sordid,
- sordidness,
- stingy,
- swinish,
- swinishness,
- taxing,
- tenacious,
- tight,
- tight-fisted,
- unappeasable,
- unappeased,
- unquenchable,
- unsated,
- unsatisfied,
- unslakeable,
- unslaked,
- urgent,
- venal,
- voracious,
- voraciousness,
- voracity,
- vulturine,
- vulturous,
- wolfish,
- wolfishness
- ferocious
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- marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" related words >
- Draconian,
- Tartarean,
- abandoned,
- aggressive,
- amok,
- animal,
- antagonistic,
- anthropophagous,
- atrocious,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- battling,
- beastly,
- bellicose,
- belligerent,
- bellowing,
- berserk,
- bestial,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- brutal,
- brutalized,
- brute,
- brutish,
- cannibalistic,
- carried away,
- chauvinist,
- chauvinistic,
- combative,
- contentious,
- cruel,
- cruel-hearted,
- delirious,
- demoniac,
- demoniacal,
- destructive,
- devilish,
- diabolic,
- diabolical,
- distracted,
- ecstatic,
- enemy,
- enraptured,
- fell,
- feral,
- ferine,
- fiendish,
- fiendlike,
- fierce,
- fighting,
- frantic,
- frenzied,
- full of fight,
- fulminating,
- furious,
- grim,
- haggard,
- hawkish,
- hellish,
- hog-wild,
- hostile,
- howling,
- hysterical,
- implacable,
- in a transport,
- in hysterics,
- infernal,
- inhuman,
- inhumane,
- inimical,
- intoxicated,
- jingo,
- jingoish,
- jingoist,
- jingoistic,
- kill-crazy,
- mad,
- madding,
- malign,
- malignant,
- maniac,
- martial,
- merciless,
- militant,
- militaristic,
- military,
- monstrous,
- murderous,
- noncivilized,
- offensive,
- orgasmic,
- orgiastic,
- pitiless,
- possessed,
- predatory,
- pugnacious,
- quarrelsome,
- rabid,
- raging,
- ramping,
- ranting,
- rapacious,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- raving,
- ravished,
- relentless,
- roaring,
- running mad,
- ruthless,
- saber-rattling,
- sadistic,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- satanic,
- savage,
- scrappy,
- sharkish,
- slavering,
- soldierlike,
- soldierly,
- storming,
- subhuman,
- tameless,
- transported,
- trigger-happy,
- truculent,
- unchristian,
- uncivilized,
- uncontrollable,
- unfriendly,
- ungentle,
- unhuman,
- unpacific,
- unpeaceable,
- unpeaceful,
- untamed,
- vicious,
- violent,
- voracious,
- warlike,
- warmongering,
- warring,
- wild,
- wild-eyed,
- wild-looking,
- wolfish
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